This verse, if there were no other in the chapter, would at once decide that somewhat infinitely more important than the mere temporal deliverance of the Church from Babylon, was intended in this blessed chapter. And who is it but our Jesus, of whom, and by whom, it could be said, that death should be swallowed up in victory? How should tears be wiped away from all faces, until Jesus had first taken away all sin, which is the sole cause of tears, by his blood? Who are the people here spoken of but Jesus's people? And how, to all eternity, could the rebukes of sin, the rebukes of God's broken law, the rebukes of God's justice, the rebukes of all God's creation; yea, the rebukes of their own guilty consciences; how could all these be taken away, but by Jesus becoming both sin and a curse for them, that they might be made the righteousness of God in him? Blessings on thee, thou Lamb of God for the accomplishment of all these precious things! And praised be the Lord
Jehovah, our God and Father, that his mouth hath spoken it, and his covenant faithfulness hath confirmed it. Reader, do not pass away from this most blessed verse, until thou hast read the following scriptures: Hosea 13:14 compared with 1 Corinthians 15:54-57; Hebrews 2:9-15; Revelation 21:3-4.