Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
The specification of "Israel," as well as Judah, shows the reference is to times yet to come.
iniquity . . . none—not merely idolatry, which ceased among the Jews ever since the Babylonian captivity, but chiefly their rejection of Messiah. As in a cancelled debt, it shall be as if it had never been; God, for Christ's sake, shall treat them as innocent (Jeremiah 31:34). Without cleansing away of sin, remission of punishment would be neither to the honor of God nor to the highest interests of the elect.
whom I reserve—the elect "remnant" (Isaiah 1:9). The "residue" (Zechariah 14:2; Zechariah 13:8-9).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 50:20:
Song of Solomon 2:11
Jeremiah 31:34
Jeremiah 50:21
Zechariah 5:4
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