9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
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.
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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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