Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
faithfulness—to My new covenant of grace with thee (I Thessalonians 5:24; Hebrews 10:23).
"Betroth" is thrice repeated, implying the intense love of God to His people; and perhaps, also, the three Persons of the Triune God, severally engaging to make good the betrothal. The marriage covenant will be as it were renewed from the beginning, on a different footing; not for a time only, as before, through the apostasy of the people, but "forever" through the grace of God writing the law on their hearts by the Spirit of Messiah (Jeremiah 31:31-37).
righteousness . . . judgment—in rectitude and truth.
loving-kindness, etc.—Hereby God assures Israel, who might doubt the possibility of their restoration to His favor; low, sunk, and unworthy as thou art. I will restore thee from a regard to My own "loving-kindness," not thy merits.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hosea 2:20:
Song of Solomon 1:2
Isaiah 1:21
Jeremiah 3:14
Ezekiel 16:8
Ezekiel 16:62
Joel 3:17
Ephesians 5:29
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