At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. As in that chapter the restoration of Judah, so in this the restoration of Israel's ten tribes, is foretold. AT THE SAME TIME - "in the latter days" (). WILL I BE THE GOD OF - manif... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. THE PEOPLE ... FOUND GRACE IN THE WILDERNESS. Upon the "grace" manifested to Israel "in the wilderness" God grounds His argument for renewing His favours to t... [ Continue Reading ]
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. THE LORD HATH APPEARED OF OLD UNTO ME ... YEA, I HAVE LOVED THEE WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE. Israel gratefully acknowledges in reply God's past grace; but... [ Continue Reading ]
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. AGAIN I WILL BUILD THEE, AND THOU SHALT BE BUILT. The combination of the active and passive to express the same fact impli... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. THOU SHALT YET PLANT VINES UPON THE MOUNTAINS OF SAMARIA - the metropolis of the ten tribes, here equivalent to Israel. The mountainous nature of their country suited the grow... [ Continue Reading ]
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. THE WATCHMEN ... SHALL CRY. The watchmen, stationed on eminences (types of the preachers of the Gospel) shall summon the 10 tribes to go up to the annual feasts... [ Continue Reading ]
For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. SING ... PRAISE YE, AND SAY, O LORD, SAVE THY PEOPLE. The people are urged with praises and prayers to supplicate for th... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. FROM THE NORTH - Assyria, Media, etc. (note, ; ; ). I WI... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. THEY SHALL COME WITH WEEPING - for their past sins, which caused t... [ Continue Reading ]
Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. HEAR ... O YE NATIONS ... HE THAT SCATTERED ISRAEL WILL GATHER HIM. The tidings of God's interposition in behalf of Israel... [ Continue Reading ]
For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. THE LORD HATH ... RANSOMED HIM FROM THE HAND OF HIM THAT WAS STRONGER - no strength of the foe can prevent the Lord from delivering Jacob ().... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. HEIGHT OF Z... [ Continue Reading ]
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. YOUNG ... OLD - (Zechariah 8:4).... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. MY GOODNESS - ().... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. RAMAH - in Benjamin, east of the great northern road, two hours' journey from Jerusalem. Rachel, who all her life had p... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. THY WORK - thy parental weeping for thy children (Rosenmuller). SHALL BE REWARDED - thine affliction in the loss... [ Continue Reading ]
And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border. THERE IS HOPE IN THINE END - all thy calamities shall have a prosperous issue.... [ Continue Reading ]
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. EPHRAIM - representing the ten tribes. BEMOANING HIMSELF - the spirit of penitent supplicat... [ Continue Reading ]
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. AFTER THAT I WAS TURNED, I REPENTED - repentance in the full sense follows, not precedes, our being turned to God... [ Continue Reading ]
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. IS EPHRAIM MY DEAR SON? ... The question implies that a negative answer was to be expected... [ Continue Reading ]
Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. SET THEE UP WAY-MARKS - pillars to mark the road for the returning exile. Caravans set up pillars, or pointed heaps of... [ Continue Reading ]
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. HOW LONG WILT THOU GO ABOUT - namely, after human helps (Jeremiah 2:18; Jeremiah 2:23; Jeremiah 2:36). Why not return immediately to me? Maurer and Michaelis... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. AS YET THEY SHALL USE THIS SPEECH IN ... JUDAH ...... [ Continue Reading ]
And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. IN JUDAH ITSELF, AND IN ALL THE CITIES ... FARMERS, AND THEY ... WITH FLOCKS - two classes, citizens and countrymen, the latter divided into agriculturists and shepherds... [ Continue Reading ]
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. I HAVE SATIATED THE WEARY ... SORROWFUL SOUL - the weary, sorrowful, and indigent state of Israel will prove no obstacle in the way of my helping them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. UPON THIS I AWAKED - the words of Jeremiah, Upon this (or, By reason of this) announcement of a happy restoration, I awaked from the prophetic dream vouchsafed to me (), with the sweet impression thereof remaining on my mind. MY S... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. I WILL SOW ... ISRAEL ... WITH THE SEED OF MAN, AND ... BEAST. He shows how a land so depopulated shall again be populated. God will cause both men... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD. LIKE AS I HAVE WATCHED OVER THEM ... TO DESTROY ... SO WILL I WATCH OVER THEM TO... [ Continue Reading ]
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. IN THOSE DAYS - after their punishment has been completed, and mercy again visits them. THE FATHERS HAVE EATEN A SOUR GRAPE, AND THE CHILDREN'S TEETH ARE SET ON EDGE - the prove... [ Continue Reading ]
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. EVERY ONE, SHALL DIE FOR HIS OWN INIQUITY - (; , "Every man shall bear his own burden ... Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap").... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: THE DAYS COME ... THAT I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH ... ISRAEL ... JUDAH. The new covenant is made with literal Israel and Judah, not with the spiritual Israel, i:e., b... [ Continue Reading ]
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: NOT ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS - i:e., The... [ Continue Reading ]
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. I WILL BE THEIR GOD - ().... [ Continue Reading ]
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. THEY SHALL TEACH NO MORE... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: THUS SAITH THE LORD ... WHICH DIVIDETH THE SEA WHEN THE WAVES ... ROAR; THE LORD... [ Continue Reading ]
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. IF THOSE ORDINANCES DEPART ... THEN ... ISRAEL ALSO SHALL CEASE FROM BEING A NATION. Israel's national polity has been broken up by the Romans. But their pr... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD. IF HEAVEN ABOVE CAN BE MEASURED ... I WILL ALSO CAST OFF ALL THE SEED OF ISRAEL - (). FOR ALL TH... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. THE CITY SHALL BE BUILT ... FROM THE TOWER OF HANANEEL - the city shall extend beyond its former bounds (; ; ). THE GATE OF THE CORNER - (; ).... [ Continue Reading ]
And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. THE MEASURING LINE - (Ezekiel 40:8; Zechariah 2:1). GAREB - from a Hebrew root [gaarab], to scrape; Syriac, leprosy: the locality outside the city where lepers were removed to. GO... [ Continue Reading ]
And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever. THE WHOLE VALLEY OF THE DEAD BODIES - Tophet, whe... [ Continue Reading ]