I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
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Gill's Exposition
I will say to the north, give up: and to the south, keep not back,.... That is, give up, and not retain, those that belong to the Lord; here the winds are spoken to by a personification; or the…
Barnes' Notes
I will say to the north, Give up - Give up my people, or restore them to their own land. Bring my sons ... - Bring all my people from the distant lands where they have been driven in their dispersion.…
This chapter has a plain connexion with the close of the foregoing chapter, but a very surprising one. It was there said that Jacob and Israel would not walk in God's ways, and that when he corrected…
Cambridge Bible
my sons … my daughters see ch. Isa 1:1. The individual Israelites are the children of the marriage between Jehovah and the nation (Hos 2:2; Hos 2:5; Eze 16:20, &c.).
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