The promise of restoration must have sounded almost as strange as the threat of punishment, including as it did those whom Judah hated and despised…

I will remember my covenant. —The remembrance of God’s covenant is made the basis of His mercy to His penitent people ([R…

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. Then you shal…

Because God here promises that He would be propitious to the Jews, some translate the former verse as if it had been said, “Shall I do with you as …

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days
of your youth
The coven…

After a full warning of judgments, mercy is remembered, mercy is reserved. These closing verses are a precious promise, partly fulfilled at the ret…