For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
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Gill's Exposition
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed,.... As sometimes by earthquakes, and as they will at the last day, when the earth shall be dissolved, and all in it, things the most solid,…
Barnes' Notes
For the mountains shall depart - (See the notes at Isa 51:6). The covenant of my peace - That is, the covenant by which I promise peace and prosperity to thee.
The seasonable succour and relief which God sent to his captives in Babylon, when they had a discharge from their bondage there, are here foretold, as a type and figure of all those consolations of…
Cambridge Bible
Comp. Psa 46:2 f.; Hab 3:6.
The first sentence may be rendered concessively: Though the mountains should remove and the hills be shaken, yet &c.
my covenant of peace (R.V.) Eze 34:25; Eze 37:26; Mal…
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