For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Ver. 1. For the Lord will have mercy upon Jacob.] And therefore destroy Babylon. as Isa 13:1-22 Such is his love to his Church that for her sake, and in revenge of her wrongs, he will fall foul upon her enemies. Si in Hierosolymis fiat scrutinium, quanto magis in Babylon. a
And the strangers shall be joined with them.] Proselyted, especially when made partakers of the grace of the gospel.
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