19, 20. "Betroth" is thrice repeated, implying the intense love of God to His people; and perhaps, also, the three Persons of the Triune God, severally engaging to make good the betrothal. The marriage covenant will be as it were renewed from the beginning, on a different footing; not for a time only, as before, through the apostasy of the people, but "forever" through the grace of God writing the law on their hearts by the Spirit of Messiah ( :- ). righteousness . . . judgment —in rectitude and truth. loving-kindness, c.—Hereby God assures Israel, who might doubt the possibility of their restoration to His favor low, sunk, and unworthy as thou art. I will restore thee from a regard to My own "loving-kindness," not thy merits. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-20" class="com-number"
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