Isaiah 14:2

"For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob."

Key Reflection

Isaiah 14:2 speaks to God's ongoing covenant with Israel, promising both compassion and a return to their ancestral homeland. This verse assures that despite past exile and suffering, the Lord will restore His people, bringing them back to the land of Jacob, where foreigners will also join and integrate into the community, symbolizing a broader inclusion and unity under divine favor.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And the people shall take them -That is, the people in Babylon. And bring them to their place -That is, they shall attend them to the land of Judea, and aid in restoring them to their own country. There is reference here, doubtless, to the fact that Cyrus would assist them (compareEzra 1:1-11), and that many of the inhabitants of Chaldea who would become proselytes, would be willing to accompany them to their own land. And the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord -Not in a foreign land, and among strangers and foes, but in their own land, and among the institutions of their own religion.

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