Isaiah 66:10-14

All these are so many blessed promises, with which the Church was to be distinguished in gospel days, when the Lord had brought home his holy word with power to the heart. Ordinances were to become blessed; Jesus alone should be blessed, and her people in her; and so endeared should the people be to the Lord, that is, Jesus's tenderness over them should be like the tenderness of a mother! We do not find this image of the mother's tenderness frequently made use of in scripture; but when it is, the Lord makes it most gracious indeed. See Isaiah 49:15.