Amos 9:15

Israel will moreover remain permanently settled in its own land.

And I will plant them … and they shall no more be pulled up, &c. Cf. Jeremiah 24:6 ("I will plant them and not pull them up"); Jeremiah 42:10. For similar promises, see Jeremiah 32:41; Ezekiel 34:28; Isaiah 60:21; Joel 3:20; and elsewhere. On the question of the non-fulfilment of such promises, see Riehm, Messianic Prophecy(ed. 2, 1891), pp. 238 268. It is to be remembered (1) that they are conditionalupon Israel's worthiness; (2) that the question forms part of a larger one, viz. the nature and extent of the idealelement in the prophets" pictures of the future, and the degree to which those pictures were coloured by the national and local limitations peculiar to their religion. Cf. p. 32 f., above, with the passages referred to in the footnotes; and comp. also F.H. Woods, The Hope of Israel(1896), chaps. 4 5 10.

thy God the title, expressive of consolation and affection, as Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 52:7; Isaiah 54:6; Isaiah 66:9. The restored nation is pictured naturally by the prophet as penitent and reformed (cf. pp. 31 f., 121); hence Jehovah is no longer its foe (Amos 9:4; Amos 9:8), but can acknowledge it again as His own.