Verse 1
1. For The word is a sign of a continued drift of thought from the foregoing chapter.
The Lord will have mercy In accordance with a perpetual covenant. It was a mercy to punish with captivity. The discipline was needed.
On Jacob Jacob and Israel are terms collective of the spiritual people Jews purified through their afflictions in Babylon. Such carried the seeds of their religion with them, which grew to fruit-age. Thus the Lord has mercy on them and re-chooses them.
Strangers shall be joined with them Proselytes in Babylon to the true religion. In like manner, from Esther 8:17, we learn that “many of the people of the land became Jews,” as the effect of evidences that God had mercy on them and chose them. Many probably accompanied them back to their land.
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