For the Lord has called you - This is designed to confirm and illustrate the sentiment in the previous verse. God there says that he would…

For the Lord hath called thee. —The words find their explanation, perhaps their starting-point, in the history of…

The LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall be called. "For the LORD hath called t…

For as a woman forsaken. He addresses a doubt that might arise in the minds of believers amidst such a distressing calamity. It seemed as …

For the Lord has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved
in spirit That has lost her hus…

As God is slow to anger, so he is swift to show mercy. And how sweet the returns of mercy would be when God comes and comforts them!

1. Give praise, O you barren. Here, against the dejection of their circumstances, he promises the remedy of exaltation.

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