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You will perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the lovingkindness to Abraham, which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
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God's Mercy and Truth
Commentators explain that God's promise began with "mercy" to Abraham—a free, unearned gift. It became "truth" to Jacob as God faithfully fulfilled that promise to his descendants. This reveals God's character: He initiates His relationship with us in grace and remains steadfastly faithful to His word.
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Micah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You will perform the truth to Jacob and the mercy to Abraham - What was free mercy to Abraham became, when God had once promised it…
19th Century
Anglican
You will perform. —The closing words in the prophecy of Micah are gloriously taken up some centuries later by Zechariah: As He…
Baptist
There is our comfort, our God is the covenant-keeping God who will perform every promise that He has made. Even if we believe not, yet He abide…
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16th Century
Protestant
The faithful confirm here the former truth: that God had deposited his covenant with them, which could not be made void. And from this also shines …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You will perform the truth to Jacob That is, the promise made to Jacob, the Lord would faithfully perform and make good t…
When God is about to deliver His people, He stirs up their friends to pray for them. Spiritually apply the prophet's prayer to Christ: that He take…
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