4Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
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And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, …
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
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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