Verse 19
19. I will give them one heart They shall finally be a united people, for the idolaters shall be destroyed and those who return from captivity shall be a unit in their monotheism (Jeremiah 32:36-39). This was literally fulfilled. Cyrus gave the Jews leave to return, but Jehovah gave them a heart to return and great unity (Wesley). The LXX. reads, “another heart,” and the Peshito reads, “a new heart” (as Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 36:26).
A new spirit The whole history of the nation shows how new this spirit was. Before the captivity it had been constantly falling into all manner of idolatries; after the captivity there was not a trace of this.
Stony heart… heart of flesh “The fires of captivity will melt that hard, implacable, undutiful, incorrigible disposition” (Wesley), and those who return will become warm and human in heart and sensitive to his presence and will (Ezekiel 11:20; compare Ezekiel 3:7; Zechariah 7:12).
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