Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Applying primarily to God's restoration of Israel from Assyria partially, and, in times yet future, fully from all the lands of their present long-continued dispersion, and political death (compare Hosea 6:2; Isaiah 25:8; Isaiah 26:19; Ezekiel 37:12). God's power and grace are magnified in quickening what to the eye of flesh seems dead and hopeless (Romans 4:17, Romans 4:19). As Israel's history, past and future, has a representative character in relation to the Church, this verse is expressed in language alluding to Messiah's (who is the ideal Israel) grand victory over the grave and death, the first-fruits of His own resurrection, the full harvest to come at the general resurrection; hence the similarity between this verse and Paul's language as to the latter (1 Corinthians 15:55). That similarity becomes more obvious by translating as the Septuagint, from which Paul plainly quotes; and as the same Hebrew word is translated in Hosea 13:10, "O death, where are thy plagues (paraphrased by the Septuagint, 'thy victory')? O grave, where is thy destruction (rendered by the Septuagint, 'thy sting')?" The question is that of one triumphing over a foe, once a cruel tyrant, but now robbed of all power to hurt.
repentance shall be hid from mine eyes--that is, I will not change My purpose of fulfilling My promise by delivering Israel, on the condition of their return to Me (compare Hosea 14:2-8; Numbers 23:19; Romans 11:29).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Jeremiah 15:6
Ezekiel 37:10
Ezekiel 37:12
Hosea 13:16
Micah 2:13
1 Corinthians 15:54
1 Corinthians 15:55
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