6He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
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And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. …
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. …
Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. …
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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The prophet is here singing of judgment and mercy, I. Of judgment upon the enemies of God’s church (Isa. 27:1), tribulation to those that trouble it , 2 Thess. 1:6. When the Lord comes out of his place, to punish the inhabitants of the earth (Isa. 26:21), he will be sure to punish leviathan , the dragon that is in the sea , every proud oppressing tyrant, that is the terror of the mighty, and, like…
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