“And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.”
Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the Lord their God. The covenant's most extraordinary statement: yet in spite of this — despite everything — I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely. The yet in spite of this is the covenant's grace interrupting the logic of deserved destruction: the community that deserves total destruction is not totally destroyed because God will not break the covenant. I am the Lord their God — the covenant formula of possession — closes the preservation promise: the God who is their God will not abandon them even in the exile.
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