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Afflictions ever tend to a good and necessary effect or end, for God’s glory, and his people’s good, and so it is here.
The house of Israel; which are the seed of Jacob, and my people.
May go no more astray; they have wandered as sheep, which naturally are apt to go out of the way, and much more when seduced and drawn out of the way, but afflictions tend to reduce them from sheepish wanderings.
From me, their only God and Saviour.
Neither be polluted: idolatry is a great pollution, and ever attended with other transgressions and immoralities, which defile also; now by their present calamities God will open their eyes to see and abhor them.
That they may be my people; in name and external profession they were God’s people, but they had forgotten their relation, and the duty of it to Godward; now by these present corrections they shall be disposed to own and love, to obey and walk with, him, as he is their God, and they his people. This effect the rod will have on my own people.