3For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
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Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; …
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. …
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. …
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)If we apply this to the state of the Jews after their return out of captivity, it is a prophecy of the increase of their nation after they were settled in their own land. Jerusalem had been in the condition of a wife written childless, or a desolate solitary widow; but now it is promised that the city should be replenished and the country peopled again, that not only the ruins of Jerusalem should…
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