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The gifts of idolaters, and all their painted stuff, God rejected in the former verse; now he encourageth the upright, those that feared, and obeyed, and waited on him. Mine holy mountain; Zion, holy hill, Psa_2:6; holy by designation, and God’s own appointing it for his temple and presence.
The height of Israel: the hypocrites, you have your high places, I abhor them; my church hath its high place, but it is the Mount Zion I have loved and chosen, called the height: it was the glory of Israel, and though lower than many other hills, yet it was above them all for God’s peculiar presence there.
All the house of Israel; redeemed by me, whom I have brought out of Babylon according to promise, the returned captivity.
All of them: it is doubled to insure them.
In the land; their own land, and their fathers’ land.
Serve me; not idols, but the God of their fathers.
Accept them; delight in them, and in their sacrifices.
Require your offerings: when I have brought you into, and blest you in, the land, then I will require your offerings as formerly; your first-fruits, your tithes, in a word, all your holy gifts: you shall see my temple built, Jerusalem filled with inhabitants, the land of Israel planted with seed of man and beast, my worship restored, and you shall go up with joy, carrying your holy things, and I will there accept them.