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I. A DIVINE TEMPORAL RESTORATION. The reference here is to those Jews who had been scattered abroad over various countries through the Babylonian Captivity and other disastrous causes. The point is, that the restoration here promised is a temporal restoration to their own land and country. God is constantly restoring His people to those temporal blessings they have lost. He restores often —

1. To lost health;

2. To lost property;

3. To lost social status.In all His people's distresses He bids them look to Him.

II. A DIVINE SPIRITUAL RESTORATION. This may mean, I will become their God in good faith or in reality, both on their side and on Mine. This is incomparably the most important restoration.

1. Man may lose his God, and be "without God in the world."

2. The loss of God is the greatest loss. A man separated from God is like a branch separated from the root, a river from the fountain, a planet from the sun.

3. Restoration to God is the transcendent good. He who can say, "The Lord is my portion," possesseth all things. This restoration the Almighty is effecting now in the world. "He is in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself."

(Homilist.)

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KJV: Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

WEB: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;