20That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
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That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, …
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-21)Prophecy was designed to exalt every valley as well as to bring low every mountain and hill (Isa. 40:4), and prophets were to speak not only conviction to the presumptuous and secure, but comfort to the despised and desponding that trembled at God’s word. The prophet Ezekiel, having in the former part of this chapter received instructions for the awakening of those that were at ease in Zion , is i…
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