Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, I will bring them from the north country,.... As from Babylon, at the end of the seventy years' captivity, which lay north of Judea; so, in the latter day, from those northern countries, as…
Barnes' Notes
The coasts of the earth - See Jer 6:22 note. Thither - Really, here. Not to the north country, but to Palestine, where Jeremiah wrote. A company is the word constantly used of Israel at the Exodus Exo…
God here assures his people,
I. That he will again take them into a covenant relation to himself, from which they seemed to be cut off. At the same time, when God's anger breaks out against the wicked…
Cambridge Bible
The Lord's reply to the joyous acclamation. Cp. Isa 42:16; Isa 40:11.
the blind and the lame, etc.] None shall be omitted. Even those who would naturally have most difficulty in travelling shall…
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