And I will plant them upon their land
The land of Israel, as trees are planted; and they shall take
root and flourish, and abound with all good things, temporal and
spiritual: and they shall no more be pulled up out of their
land which I have
given them, saith the Lord thy God;
by which it appears that this is a prophecy of things yet to
come; since the Jews, upon their return to their own land after
the Babylonish captivity, were pulled up again, and rooted out of
it by the Romans, and remain so to this day; but, when they shall
return again, they will never more be removed from it; and of
this they may he assured; because it is the land the Lord has,
"given" them, and it shall not be taken away from them any more;
and, because he will now appear to be the "Lord their God", the
"loammi", ( Hosea 1:9 ) , will he
taken off from them; they will be owned to be the Lords people,
and he will be known by them to be their covenant God; which will
ensure all the above blessings to them, of whatsoever kind; for
this is either said to the prophet, "the Lord thy God", or to
Israel; and either way it serves to confirm the same thing.