19And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
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And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-24)When God promised the poor captives a glorious return, in due time, to their own land, it was a great discouragement to their hopes that they were unworthy, utterly unworthy, of such a favour; therefore, to remove that discouragement, God here shows them that he would do it for them purely for his own name’s sake , that he might be glorified in them and by them, that he might manifest and magnify…
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