30Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-31)The prophet has no more to say to the shepherds, but he has now a message to deliver to the flock. God had ordered him to speak tenderly to them, and to assure them of the mercy he had in store for them. But here he is ordered to make a difference between some and others of them, to separate between the precious and the vile and then to give them a promise of the Messiah, by whom this distinction…
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