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For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
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God's Unchanging Choice
Commentators explain that God's compassion is the direct cause of Israel's restoration and Babylon's fall. The phrase "will yet choose Israel" does not mean God changes His mind. Rather, as John Calvin notes, it signifies God demonstrating His eternal and unchanging election of His people, even after a period of discipline that might have looked like rejection. This is a promise that God's covenant love is steadfast.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob - That is, He will pity the captive Jews in Babylon. He will not abandon them, but will remember them,…
19th Century
Anglican
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob ... —The words imply a foresight of the return of the Israelites from exile, and th…
Baptist
This promise had a measure of fulfillment when Israel was brought back from Babylon; and it is still true that, when God's people come to their wor…
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16th Century
Protestant
For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob. The particle כי (ki), having various significations, we might take it as signifying <…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, will yet choose Israel
While the Jews were i…
The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy…
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13th Century
Catholic
409. Her time is near at hand. In this part, he promises liberation to the Jews through the destruction of Babylon, which he threatened abov…
