Isaiah 26:9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you early… It reigned in the United States of America for a hundred years. It was defended by almost the entire body of preachers in the southern States — defended and upheld, and its extension vindicated and advocated. And then God brought an awful war of four years' duration upon the United States, and Mr. Lincoln, that heroic man in the midst of that country, made this significant announcement: "It would not surprise me if, in view of the long-continued oppression of the slave in this country, it should please Almighty God that this war shall not cease until the life of one freeman has been exacted for the life of every slave that has been sacrificed during these hundred years." And the cost of that American war was 500,000 people killed, 300,000 people maimed, 300,000 women made widows, 700,000 children made orphans, and 3000 millions of dollars, or 600 million sterling expended. God's judgment on the sin of greed and selfishness! (A. T. Pierson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. |
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