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For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, says your God.
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God as a Reconciling Husband
Commentators explain that this verse uses the powerful image of a husband calling back a wife he had rejected. The phrase "wife of youth" is key, signifying a deep, early love. As John Calvin notes, this suggests God's eagerness to reconcile, like a young husband whose tender love makes him quick to forgive. The pain of being "forsaken" is real, but God's call to restoration is even more powerful.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
For the Lord hath called thee. —The words find their explanation, perhaps their starting-point, in the history of…
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the Lord has called you as a woman forsaken and grievedin 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!
He will…
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13th Century
Catholic
Give praise, O you barren. Here, against the dejection of their circumstances, he promises the remedy of exaltation.
