28And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
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And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
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.
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
That 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.
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-38)The people of God might be discouraged in their hopes of a restoration by the sense not only of their unworthiness of such a favour (which was answered, in the Ezek. 36:1-24, with this, that God, in doing it, would have an eye to his own glory, not to their worthiness), but of their unfitness for such a favour, being still corrupt and sinful; and that is answered in these verses, with a promise th…
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