“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.
The heathen mistook Israel's ruin for proof that God could not keep His covenant; but when He restores His people after their reformation, all the world will see the truth: Israel fell not by God's weakness but by their own sin, which forfeited His favour and threw them into His enemies' hands. This turns their reproach into His glory.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 39:23-29
Therefore thus saith the Lord,.... The Jews having been long punished for their sins; and being brought to repentance for them, and to faith in Christ, as they will be in the latter day: hence it follows, now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob; or the captives of Jacob, the people of Israel, that have been carried captive into all lands; these shall...
bring again the captivity--restore from calamity to prosperity. the whole house of Israel--so "all Israel" (Rom 11:26). The restorations of Israel heretofore have been partial; there must be one yet future that is to be universal (Hos 1:11).