“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. I will allure her, and so forth After her disloyalties, I will still allure her by my grace, and so forth and send her vine-dressers, that is the apostles, originally her own children, who shall open to her the gates of hope; as heretofore, at her coming into the land of promise, she had all good success after she had satisfied the divine justice by the execution of Achan, in the valley of Achor. Joshua 7. Challoner.—Septuagint “I will seduce or make her stray;” πλανω. Bible.—I will permit her to yield to error, in captivity; (Theod.) or will cause her hopes to be frustrated yet in exile I will comfort her. The Jews were not changed till they had seen the vanity of idols, and suffered much. Calmet.—God’s grace prevents sinners, that they may be converted. Worthington.