1Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
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Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The first words of this chapter some make the close of the foregoing chapter, and add them to the promises which we have here of the great things God would do for them. When they shall have appointed Christ their head, and centered in him, then let them say to one another, with triumph and exultation ( let the prophets say it to them, so the Chaldee— Comfort you, comfort you, my people , is now th…
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