The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
31:3 drawn thee. The incomprehensible, yet wonderful, truth of God’s election breaks through in such Scriptures as this. He has loved His own from eternity; then, in time, He draws them to Himself (note also John 6:37,44; Ephesians 1:4; Romans 8:29-30).