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The concluding chapter gives us the spirit of Christ in the prophet, feeling and owning the state of the nation. Verse 6 is quoted in the Gospels as the condition of things produced by the presence of Christ among the people. His eyes (ver. 7) are upon Jehovah and he waits for God to intervene in salvation. All this voices, no doubt, the thoughts and feelings of the preserved remnant of Israel in the coming day. The spirit of Christ will be in them as in the prophets of old, and they will be able to sing the beautiful psalm of praise and triumph given in the remaining verses of the chapter, and ending thus: