3The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
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But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. …
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)God here assures his people, I. That he will again take them into a covenant relation to himself, from which they seemed to be cut off. At the same time , when God’s anger breaks out against the wicked (Jer. 30:24), his own people shall be owned by him as the children of his love: I will be the God (that is, I will show myself to be the God) of all the families of Israel (Jer. 31:1),—not of the tw…
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