Verse 5
5. The judgment will bring the people to their senses and prepare them for intimate fellowship with Jehovah.
Afterward After the judgment has exercised its salutary effect.
Return, and seek Not necessarily from exile. The construction is the same as that in Hosea 2:9, where R.V. renders “take back”; here equivalent to seek again Cured from apostasy, they will return from following the Baalim and seek Jehovah. Him, and him alone, will they recognize as their God.
David their king See Introduction, p. 34.
Shall fear [“come with fear unto”] Jehovah The same verb is translated “shall thrill,” that is, with joyous emotion, in Isaiah 60:5 (compare Jeremiah 33:9; Hosea 11:11); that seems to be the thought here: they will approach Jehovah trembling with joyful anticipation, though a sense of fear is not absent when they think of their former sinfulness.
His goodness As manifested in the restoration of the gifts withdrawn, in his readiness to forgive, and in the pouring out of countless blessings in which the Messianic age abounds (Hosea 2:21-22; Amos 9:11 ff.; Jeremiah 31:11-13, etc.).
In the latter days See on Micah 4:1.
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