And they shall spring up – The idea is that as plants and trees planted by watercourses and in well-watered fields grow and flouris…

As willows. —The same word as in Psalms 137:2 and Isaiah 15:7. Botanists identify it with a species of Viburnum, which gr…

Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus says the Lord that made you, and formed you from the womb, which will he…

And they shall spring up. These words contain nothing more than what I quoted from Psalm 104:30: that when the Spirit of God has been sent…

And they shall spring up as among the grass
That is, such on whom the Spirit of the Lord shall be poured with his gi…

Israel is here called Jeshurun, which means "the upright one." Only such are Israelites indeed, in whom is no guile. Those who serve God, …

1. And now hear, O Jacob. Here, third, he strengthens them by explaining the worthle ne of idols, lest they should believe that the…