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I will set mine eyes upon them for good; the soul looking out at the eye, discovereth its inclinations and affection, whether of love or wrath. Hence we read of God’s setting his eyes upon people for evil, Amo_9:4, as here of his setting his eyes upon them for good. Or else it may signify God’s setting himself to do them good, as a man when he sets upon doing a thing, sets his eyes upon it in order thereunto.
I will bring them again to this land; some of them probably returned before the end of the captivity, some at the end of the seventy years.
I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up: the meaning of these metaphorical expressions is, I will prosper them, and provide for them. We read, 2Ki_25:27,28, that Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, lifted his head up out of prison, spake kindly to him, &c.; but this prophecy was also fulfilled in Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Mordecai, and others, who are thought to be carried away with Jeconiah; or the prophecy may be understood of the posterity of those who were at this time carried away.