Or else let it come and take hold of My strength, that it may make peace with Me; yes, let it make peace with Me, repeating the preceding verse for emphasis and establishing the centrality of the peace-making that salvation accomplishes. The repetition suggests the importance of this affirmation: peace is not merely one benefit of salvation but its culmination and essence. The alternative of taking hold of God's strength and making peace establishes that the way of salvation is open even to those who have been resistant, that God continually holds out the possibility of reconciliation. This verse emphasizes that the ultimate division is not between Israel and the nations but between those who accept God's invitation to peace and those who refuse it.

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