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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. There is the reason why they are blessed, it is all owing to God’s electing love: “the people whom he hath chosen.” If God has chosen them, they are blessed people indeed. Whom he determines to bless, none can effectually curse.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. If you have chosen God, God has chosen you. It is a happy thing when it is so; when these two elections meet,-your election of God, and God’s election of you,-then you are happy indeed.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord looketh from heaven,.... Where his throne and temple are, upon the earth and men, and things in it, as follows; he beholdeth all the sons of men; the evil and the good; which is contrary to the sense of many wicked men, who imagine he takes no notice of what is done here below; but his eye is upon all, upon all the workers of iniquity,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD looketh from heaven; he beboldeth all the sons of men. As we look out of a window, and see the people passing in the street below, “he beholdeth all the sons of men,” whether at the pole or at the equator. None are hidden from his omniscient eye.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. Just as in a glass hive you can see all the bees, and all they do, so can God see us; and he can see all that we think, and read and know us through and through.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From the place of his habitation,.... Which is heaven, that is, the habitation of his holiness, and of his glory, Isaiah 63:15; he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth; good and bad; and not the nation of Israel only, but the Gentile world, whom in former times he overlooked, but under the Gospel dispensation visits in a way of mercy; by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. He fashioneth their hearts alike; Not that their hearts are alike, but it means that he only fashioneth all their hearts. They were all made by him. There is no understanding so great but he made it, and there is no mind so feeble but still he made it: “he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He fashioneth their hearts alike,.... The Lord is the former and fashioner of the heart, spirit, or soul of man, even of all hearts and spirits; whence he is called the Father of spirits, Hebrews 12:9; see Zechariah 12:1; and he is the former of them alike; which seems to intimate as if all seals were alike, as they are made by the Lord; and it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He considereth all their works. There is no king saved by the multitude of an host See what vast companies of soldiers Darius gathered together, yet Alexander smote them; and Napoleon led into Russia more than half a million of men, yet they melted away like snow.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: Look at Napoleon, who marched more than half a million of men into Russia; but they nearly all melted away, and, after a time, he himself became a captive on the lone rock of St. Helena: “There is no king saved by the multitude of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host,.... He may be at the head of a numerous army, and yet not get the victory over a lesser one, nor escape safe, but be taken by it: there have been such instances; and if he is saved, or gets the victory, it is not owing to the multitude with him, but to the Lord, that gives salvation to kings,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A mighty man is not delivered by much strength. Sooner or later, he dies, however strong he is.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A mighty man is not delivered by much strength. Look at Goliath, stronger than all his fellows; yet how soon he lay prone upon the earth when a single stone from the sling of David smote him in the forehead.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
A horse [is] a vain thing for safety,.... Though it is prepared for the day of battle, and is a very warlike creature, and of great service in war, yet safety only is of the Lord, Proverbs 21:31; this is put for all kinds of military preparations which men are apt to trust in, but should not, for they are "a lie" (i), as the horse is here said to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A horse is a vain thing for safety: It throws its rider, or falls upon him, or is killed with him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy, Beautiful expression! I always like that mixture of fear and hope. An old fisherman used to compare it to his net. “Fear,” said he, “is the weight that sinks it, and hope is the cork that floats it.” To make...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Whatever becomes of kings and princes in the day of need, the Lord will take care of those who fear...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, the eye of the Lord [is] upon them that fear him,.... Not with dread of his wrath, or distrust of his grace, or for sinister ends and selfish views, but with a godly fear; by which men hate evil, depart from it, are careful not to offend God by it, but to serve and worship him; on such is not only his eye of Providence to protect from...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
To deliver their soul from death,.... Not a corporeal death, for the soul dies not, and is never in any danger of death; and should life, or the whole man, be intended here, yet those that fear the Lord, and hope in his mercy, are not exempted and secured from a corporeal death, but die as other men; though sometimes indeed they are remarkably...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. When ethers die of want, the Lord will take care of them that fear him. I remember a story of the siege of Rochelle, when the city was in such straits that the people had to eat cats, and dogs, and rats, and all manner of filthiness. There was one Christian woman, who, having some...