38And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: …
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-44)We have here God’s answer to Jeremiah’s prayer, designed to quiet his mind and make him easy; and it is a full discovery of the purposes of God’s wrath against the present generation and the purposes of his grace concerning the future generations. Jeremiah knew not how to sing both of mercy and judgment , but God here teaches to sing unto him of both. When we know not how to reconcile one word of…
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