Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; 13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty Man 1:14 And the Lord shall be seen over them; and his arrows shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. 15 The Lord of hosts shall defend them: and they shall devour, and subdue with sling-stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. 16 And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. 17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
What is this strong hold, but the hold of salvation in Jesus? And who can turn in this, but the souls made willing? But observe the promise to this purport. I will render double unto thee. Who promiseth this, but Jehovah? Greece shall bend to Zion, because the Lord's hand shall be seen in the dispensation. The trumpet of the everlasting Gospel shall be heard. The whole work, the whole glory is the Lord's. And the beauty and loveliness of Christ shall be known, felt, and adored in that day; and the wine of the Gospel shall be drank, and the love of Christ be sought after as the chief good. Remarkable to this purpose was the pouring out the gifts of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, and from that period to the present, and so on as long as the Church continues on the earth, in the glorifying Christ to his people's view, and forming him in their heart, the hope of glory.