5Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
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That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; …
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)This chapter has a plain connexion with the close of the foregoing chapter, but a very surprising one. It was there said that Jacob and Israel would not walk in God’s ways, and that when he corrected them for their disobedience they were stubborn and laid it not to heart; and now one would think it should have followed that God would utterly abandon and destroy them; but no, the next words are, Bu…
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