15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
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Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-17)The scope of these verses is to show that the return of the people of God out of their captivity, and the eternal redemption to be wrought out by Christ (of which that was a type), would be great occasions of joy to the church and great proofs of the tender care God has of the church. I. Nothing can furnish us with better matter for songs of praise and thanksgiving, Isa. 49:13. Let the whole creat…
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