22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
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I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. …
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)In these verses we have, I. The duty which Jacob and Israel, now in captivity, were called to, that they might be qualified and prepared for the deliverance designed them. Our first care must be to get good by our afflictions, and then we may hope to get out of them. The duty is expressed in two words: Remember and return , as in the counsel to Ephesus, Rev. 2:4 , 5 . 1. “ Remember these, O Jacob…
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