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.
'It moves in lengthened elegiac measure, like a song of lamentation for the dead, and is full of lofty scorn.' (Herder).
For the Lord ... will yet choose Israel - set His choice upon. A deliberate predilection (Horsley). Their restoration is grounded on their election (see Psalms 102:13-22).
And the strangers shall be joined with them - proselytes (Esther 8:17; Acts 2:10; Acts 17:4; Acts 17:17). Tacitus, a pagan ('History,' 5: 5), attests the fact of numbers of the Gentiles having become Jews in his time. An earnest of the future effect on the pagan world of the Jews' spiritual restoration (Isaiah 60:4-5; Isaiah 60:10; Micah 5:7; Zechariah 14:16; Romans 11:12).