Behold, &c.— The reader will understand these verses best by referring to Isaiah 35:5; Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 41:18; Isaiah 49:10 where that prophet foretels the same things, though with much more magnificence. All this was but imperfectly verified in the return of the Jews from Babylon, but was made good in those who were made partakers of the Gospel of Christ, in the miracles, in the preaching of the apostles, in the free grace and pardoning mercy of the Redeemer; but will be still more fully accomplished, when the Jews shall be restored, and the fulness of the Gentiles arrive. Houbigant renders the beginning of the 9th verse, They went out with weeping; I will restore them with comfort.
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Jeremiah 31:8-9
8 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.
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplicationsc will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.