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ACKNOWLEDGE - literally, “know thy iniquity;” know that thy doings
are iniquitous.
SCATTERED THY WAYS - Wandered in search of those idolatries which
foreign nations practice....
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THE CALL TO REPENTANCE AND JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED (3:6-6:30)
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The contrast between backslidden Israel and treacherous Judah
(Jeremiah 3:6) _
2. The call to return and the promised glory ...
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ISRAEL'S SIN LESS THAN JUDAH'S. This passage interrupts the continuity
of Jeremiah 3:19 with Jeremiah 3:5 (note also the interruptive
introductory formula, Jeremiah 3:6), and seems to be a separate
pr...
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ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE, &C. This from the first was, and still is, the one
condition of national blessing for Israel. Reference to Pentateuch
(Leviticus 26:40; Leviticus 26:42).
TRANSGRESSED. rebelled.
SC...
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_hast scattered thy ways_ hast wandered hither and thither. Cp.
Jeremiah 2:23.
_strangers_ foreign gods. Cp. Jeremiah 2:25....
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In spite of (i) greater privileges, (_a_) succession of kings of the
same family, (_b_) the Temple, (_c_) Levites; (ii) the warning example
of Israel, Judah has proved faithless and hypocritical as we...
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Jeremiah 3:6 to Jeremiah 4:4. Conditional offers of restoration
We may subdivide thus.
(1) Jeremiah 3:6-18. The ten tribes as less guilty than Judah are
invited to repent and return. (2)...
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Dr. (with Co. and others) points out that here the word "Israel" is
used in its restricted sense for the ten tribes, whereas in Jeremiah
2:1 to Jeremiah 3:5 it meant the people as a whole, and he infe...
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DISCOURSE: 1033
GOD’S INVITATION TO HIS PEOPLE
Jeremiah 3:12. Go, and proclaim these words toward the north; and say,
Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause
mine anger t...
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C. The Call to Repentance Jeremiah 3:11-14
TRANSLATION
(11) And the LORD said unto me, More righteous is Backsliding Israel
than Treacherous Judah. (12) Go and call these words to the north and
say,...
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3:13 thither (d-20) Lit. 'hast scattered thy ways.' strangers (e-23)
i.e. false gods....
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THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE
INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF
THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6)
This section furnishes us with the g...
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JEREMIAH'S THIRD PROPHECY. THE FATE OF THE TEN TRIBES A WARNING TO
JUDAH
In this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the
figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. But as a marke...
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ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE... — This was the one sufficient, indispensable
condition of pardon — the confession that kept nothing back, and
made no vain excuses.
HAST SCATTERED THY WAYS. — The phrase is a stron...
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אַ֚ךְ דְּעִ֣י עֲוֹנֵ֔ךְ כִּ֛י בַּ
יהוָ֥ה אֱלֹ
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CHAPTER III
ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST
Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 4:1
THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and
the darkness of its close was not relieved by a single ray o...
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PLEADING WITH FAITHLESS CHILDREN
Jeremiah 3:11-25; Jeremiah 4:1-2
The people of the northern kingdom, to whom this appeal is especially
addressed, were more excusable than Judah, because their privil...
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Following the impeachment, the prophet appealed to the people to
return. This appeal commenced with a declaration that Jehovah's love
was greater than man's in that He was willing to receive back the...
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Only acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the
LORD thy God, and hast (p) scattered thy ways to the strangers under
every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the...
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_Ways, dividing thy love, and adoring idols with me._...
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Nothing can more highly illustrate the riches of grace, than what is
here said, on the subject of divine mercy. Israel was about to go into
Babylon, and there the Prophet is particularly directed to p...
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God lays down here a condition, lest hypocrites, relying on his
goodness, should become more and more hardened, and yet think that he
is bound as it were to them; for they usually reason thus, — “God...
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Chapter 3 has the same character; indeed it is the continuation of the
same address; but it contains details of Israel's and Judah's
behaviour, and proclaims the restoration of Israel by sovereign
goo...
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ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE THINE INIQUITY,.... Or, "know" e it; unless a man
knows his sin, and is convicted of it, he will never repent of it, or
turn from it; and when he is made sensible of it, and sorry for...
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Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against
the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under
every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the L...
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_Go, and proclaim these words toward the north_ “The sin of the ten
tribes being attended with more favourable circumstances than that of
Judah, the prophet is commanded to call them to repentance wit...
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Only acknowledge thine iniquity, freely confessing her transgressions
and her guilt, THAT THOU HAST TRANSGRESSED AGAINST THE LORD, THY GOD,
against whom, in the last analysis, every sin is directed, A...
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THE CALL TO RETURN...
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12-20 See God's readiness to pardon sin, and the blessings reserved
for gospel times. These words were proclaimed toward the north; to
Israel, the ten tribes, captive in Assyria. They are directed ho...
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ONLY ACKNOWLEDGE THINE INIQUITY; which will be the evidence of thy
repentance, without which thou canst not lay claim to any pardon,
PROVERBS 28:13 ISAIAH 55:7. This is spoken by way of limitation, le...
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Jeremiah 3:13 acknowledge H3045 (H8798) iniquity H5771 transgressed
H6586 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 scattered H6340
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A BRIEF GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM
(JEREMIAH 3:12).
Having established that Judah was even more guilty than Israel YHWH
now breaks into the message of gloom by demo...
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Jeremiah 3:12. Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,
Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause
mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LO...
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Let us read part of the 3 rd chapter of Jeremiah where God brings a
solemn accusation against the two nations of Israel and Judah because
they forsook the living God, and went after idols neglected hi...
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In this chapter, the sin of God's people is put in the strongest
possible light. The figure used may be even said to be a coarse one,
but man's sin is itself a coarse thing. The thoughts suggested in...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message concerning the impenitence of Judah.
Encouragement to backsliders to return and repent.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those will justly be divorced from God tha...
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Jeremiah 3:3. _Therefore the showers,_ of the former and the latter
rain, _have been withheld._ Other prophets make the same remark. God
is not obliged to give luxuriant harvests to furnish feasts to...
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_Return, thou backsliding Israel._
THE BACKSLIDER’S RETURN
I. The invitation to return.
1. From one who
(1) has been wronged (Jeremiah 3:13);
(2) might therefore justly be angry;
(3) but is “mer...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_1. Chronology._ Exact date of
chapter uncertain. It naturally divides itself at Jeremiah 3:5,
although Dahler, Umbriet, and Neuman contend for the unity of the
chapter...
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EXPOSITION
That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1.
ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be
proved by Jeremiah 3:6, and the years immediately f...
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They say (Jeremiah 3:1),
That is, in quoting the law and in speaking of the law, Deuteronomy.
If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes
another man's wife, shall he return unto...
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1 John 1:8; Deuteronomy 12:2; Deuteronomy 30:1; Ezekiel 16:15;...
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Strangers — To other gods, or to idols, running here and there up
and down....