Hosea 7:7 They are all hot as an oven Eager upon their idolatry, or burning in their unclean desires after other men's wives; or rather raging and fur...
Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt As Sinai of old did, when the Lord descended on it, ( Exodus 19:18 ) ( Judges 5:5 ) . Mountai...
Overview - Jeremiah 51 1?The severe judgment of God against Babylon, in revenge of Israel. 59?Jeremiah delivers the book of this prophecy to Seraiah, ...
Nahum 3:18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria Who this king of Assyria was is not easy to say; some think Esarhaddon, who is the last of the kin...
?EXPOSITION Verse 6. He shall judge among the heathen, or, among the nations. All nations shall feel his power, and either yield to it joyfully or be ...
Isaiah 29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought Who before was so to the people of God; meaning not Sennacherib king of Assyria, but some formi...
Job 27:14 If his children be multiplied As it is possible they may; this is one external blessing common to good men and bad men. Haman, that proud op...
Jeremiah 15:11 The Lord said In answer to the prophet's complaint: verily it shall be well with thy remnant: not with the remnant of his people, or th...
Job 39:23 The quiver rattleth against him The quiver is what arrows are put into and carried in, and seems here to be put for arrows, which being shot...
Overview - Lamentations 1 1?The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews pathetically lamented, with confessions of their sins. 12?The attention and comp...
Chapter?21 The Gibeonites avenged. (1-9) Rizpah's care for the bodies of Saul's descendants. (10-14) Battles with the Philistines. (15-22) ...
Isaiah 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain As a woman at the time of childbirth, as the following words show: these words are spoken by the p...
John Darby commentary for Mark 16Mark Chapter 16The last chapter is divided into two parts-a fact that has even given rise to questions as to the aut...
Psalms 64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer The prayer of the psalmist was vocal and expressed in a mournful manner, with groans and cries, as the ...
Isaiah 43:1 But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob This prophecy is not concerning Cyrus, and the redemption of the Jews by him, as so...
Psalms 9:6 O thou enemy Which some understand of Goliath, though we do not read of any desolations made by him, nor of any cities destroyed by him; no...
During all the period of the Kingdom, the Jews and the nations are under trial; for probation does not end till the Son gives up the Kingdom to the F...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 13. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. David had been a man of sympathy; he had mourned when Saul was in ...
Isaiah 4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle Christ, who tabernacled in our nature, and is the minister of the true tabernacle, which God pitched, and n...
Isaiah 65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit As the Canaanites did, whose houses the Israelites inhabited; but they shall inhabit the houses...