23And 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. …
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: …
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. …
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-23)The state of Israel ruined by their own sin did not look so black and dismal in the former part of the chapter, but that the state of Israel, restrained by the divine grace, looks as bright and pleasant here in the latter part of the chapter, and the more surprisingly so as the promises follow thus close upon the threatenings; nay, which is very strange, they are by a note of connexion joined to,…
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