The LORD promised unending lovingkindness to all His people, promising to gather them into His kingdom, redeeming them from their enemies and filling them with everlasting joy.
Due to their sin, the people’s condition was incurable, and their reaction to the LORD’s correction was incorrigible, but His grace is incomprehensible.
The LORD used the exile as a means of instruction: teaching His people how to trust Him, exhorting them to submit to His purposes, and encouraging them to wait on…