Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
from thence--returning from the wilderness. God gives Israel a fresh grant of Canaan, which she had forfeited; so of her vineyards, etc. (Hosea 2:9, Hosea 2:12).
Achor--that is "trouble." As formerly Israel, after their tedious journey through the wilderness, met with the trouble resulting from Achan's crime in this valley, on the very threshold of Canaan, and yet that trouble was presently turned into joy at the great victory at Ai, which threw all Canaan into their hands (Jos. 7:1-8:28); so the very trouble of Israel's wilderness state will be the "door of hope" opening to better days. The valley of Achor, near Jericho, was specially fruitful (Isaiah 65:10); so "trouble" and "hope" are rightly blended in connection with it.
sing . . . as . . . when she came . . . out of . . . Egypt--It shall be a second exodus song, such as Israel sang after the deliverance at the Red Sea (Exo. 15:1-21; compare Isaiah 11:15-16); and "the song of Moses" (Revelation 15:2-3) sung by those who through the Lamb overcome the beast, and so stand on the sea of glass mingled with fire, emblems of fiery trial, such as that of Israel at the Red Sea.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Joshua 7:26
Psalms 129:1-2
Isaiah 65:10
Jeremiah 2:2
Jeremiah 3:4
Ezekiel 11:15
Ezekiel 20:33
Hosea 2:14
Hosea 9:10
1 Corinthians 16:9
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