5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
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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.
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, …
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. …
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The prophet, in his foregoing discourses, had left his hearers under a high charge of guilt and a deep sense of wrath; he had left them in a melancholy view of the desolations of their pleasant land, which was the effect of their fathers’ disobedience; but because he designed to bring them to repentance, not to drive them to despair, he here sets before them the great things God had in store for t…
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