I will return, and have compassion on them. —The words refer, as Jeremiah 12:16 shows, not to Judah only, but to the “evi…

God does not only promise mercy here to the Jews, but also to Gentile nations, whom He would judge, to punish them for the sake of His people. That…

And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out ,
&c.] Not the Jews only, but more especially their ne…

The Lord would plead the cause of his people against their evil neighbors. Yet he would afterwards show mercy to those nations, when they learn tru…

Here, he speaks of the comfort that will arise from the punishment of the enemy, addressing three points.

1. He speaks of their remov…