When God's People Become a Byword of Shame
Spurgeon, drawing from Hengstenberg's commentary on Psalm 44:14, illuminates a devastating spiritual reality: when Israel fell from covenant blessing, their very name became a proverb...
This is historical examples on divine abandonment and faithfulness and national shame and spiritual decline, drawing on Psalms 44:14.
Spurgeon, drawing from Hengstenberg's commentary on Psalm 44:14, illuminates a devastating spiritual reality: when Israel fell from covenant blessing, their very name became a proverb of misery. The Hebrew word mashal (similitude) carried the weight of mockery—so completely had the nation's condition deteriorated that "a miserable man" would be called "a Jew" in contempt, just as liars were branded "Cretans" and wretched slaves were named "Sardians."…
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