George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 31:38
Come, is only in the margin of the Hebrew, but is found properly in some manuscripts. (Kennicott) --- Corner. On the south, opposite to the former, 2 Esdras iii. 1.
Come, is only in the margin of the Hebrew, but is found properly in some manuscripts. (Kennicott) --- Corner. On the south, opposite to the former, 2 Esdras iii. 1.
Verse Jeremiah 31:38. _THE CITY SHALL BE BUILT TO THE LORD_] This cannot mean the city built after the return from Babylon, for two reasons: 1. This is to be much _greater_ in _extent_; 2. It is to...
TO THE LORD - Or, for Yahweh: for His dwelling in the hearts of a people prepared to be His temple....
CHAPTER 31 _ 1. The home-going of the nation (Jeremiah 31:1) _ 2. The joy of salvation (Jeremiah 31:10) 3. The preceding tribulation, sorrow and repentance (Jeremiah 31:15) 4. Assur
Israel's national existence shall be as permanent as Yahweh's rule of nature (Jeremiah 31:35 f.); it is as impossible for Israel to be rejected as it is for man to comprehend the created world (Jeremi...
COME. This word is not in the Hebrew text, "but it is in the margin, as well as in some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, which read "Lo, days are...
See introd. summary to the section....
_Behold, the days come_ The word _come_is omitted in the earliest form of the Heb. text, but probably by an error in copying, as the phrase is a favourite one with Jeremiah. See note on Jeremiah 23:5....
These _vv_. may safely be assumed to belong to post-exilic days, when topographical questions connected with the extent of the city assumed importance. Cp. Zechariah 14. For the position of places her...
BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, &C.— The prophet here describes the limits of that new Jerusalem which the Jews were to build upon their restoration. This must certainly refer to some future restoration; for t...
G. The New City Jeremiah 31:38-40 TRANSLATION (38) Behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when the city of the LORD shall be built from the tower of Hananeel unto the Corner Gate. (39) And the...
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...
1-22. Jeremiah speaks of the restoration first of Israel (Ephraim, Jeremiah 31:2), then of Judah (Jeremiah 31:23.). Those who survive the sufferings of the captivity are promised a safe journey home....
FROM THE TOWER OF HANANEEL UNTO THE GATE OF THE CORNER. — There seems to us something almost like an anti-climax in this sudden transition from the loftiest Gospel promises to the obscure localities o...
הִנֵּ֛ה יָמִ֥ים _בָּאִ֖ים_† נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֑ה וְ נִבְנְתָ֤ה
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
CHAPTER XXXIII RESTORATION IV THE NEW COVENANT Jeremiah 31:31: CF. Hebrews 8:1 "I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah."- Jeremiah 31:31 THE religious histo
Continuing, the Prophet dealt with the issues of restoration. He first described the restoration of the city. After affirming the ancient love of Jehovah for His people, he foretold the building of th...
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the (o) city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the corner. (o) As it was performed, (Nehemiah 3:1). By this description...
If we accept this promise as in the smallest degree referring to the building of the second temple and the city, after the people's return from Babylon, we must still look further to gospel days, to o...
Here the Prophet speaks of the rebuilding of the city. I doubt not but that his object was to shew them that the largeness and splendor of the city after the return of the people would not be less tha...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 31 AND 32. But it would not be Judah only, to whom the prophecies of Jeremiah were addressed, that should be restored-all the families of Israel should enjoy...
BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD,.... The word come is not in the text; it is read, but not written. The vowel points are in the text, but not the letters; which those, who are against the antiqu...
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. Ver. 38. _Behold the days come, saith the Lord, &c_] The word c...
_Behold, the days come, that the city shall be built to the Lord_ Or, _for the Lord_, namely, for his use and service. Blaney renders it, _Under the direction_ of the Lord, _from the tower of Hananeel...
THE NEW LIFE AND THE NEW COVENANT...
35-40 As surely as the heavenly bodies will continue their settled course, according to the will of their Creator, to the end of time, and as the raging sea obeys him, so surely will the Jews be cont...
That is, it shall be built round, as largely as ever. We read of this TOWER OF HANANEEL, NEHEMIAH 3:1, NEHEMIAH 12:39 MALACHI 14:10; it was in the south, or rather the eastern part of the city. We rea...
Jeremiah 31:38 days H3117 coming H935 (H8802) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 city H5892 built H1129 ...
THE THREEFOLD PREDICTIONS CONCERNING ‘THE DAYS THAT ARE COMING' (JEREMIAH 31:27). We now come to a threefold prediction concerning the coming days, backed up by absolute assurances of their fulfilmen...
IN COMING DAYS YHWH WILL RE-ESTABLISH THE WHOLE OF JERUSALEM AS HOLY TO HIM (JEREMIAH 31:38). The first thing that was to happen ‘in coming days' was the restoration of YHWH's people in the land, wher...
SUB-PART B. THE COMING DAYS WILL INTRODUCE A COMPLETELY NEW TYPE OF COVENANT PROVIDED BY YHWH, ONE THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE HEART AND WILL THUS RESULT IN CHANGED LIVES (JEREMIAH 31:23). This sub-part co...
CONTENTS: Israel in the last days. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God will again at the end of the age take Israel into new covenant relation with Himself, from which they have for hundreds of years b...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time,_ namely, as the last words of the preseding chapter, in the latter day. Here the subject is glorious, and the language sublime. Jeremiah 31:3. _I have loved thee with...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:1 This chapter includes the most famous passage in Jeremiah 1:1, the promise of a new covenant (vv....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:38 Jerusalem will soon be destroyed, yet God will eventually rebuild it. When it is totally sacred to the Lord (Zechariah 14:20), it will...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Vide_ on chap. 30. These two Chapter s form an unbroken prophecy, “a triumphal hymn of Israel’s salvation.” The former chapter pledges the recovery from captivity of bo...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 31:1 The promise of Jeremiah 30:22 is expressly declared to apply to both sections of the nation. Jehovah thus solemnly declares his purpose of mercy, and dwells with special Mad...
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Jeremiah 31:1-40. Now there are those who say that God has cast off Israel as a nation forever, and that all of the blessings, all of the covenants and all of...
2 Chronicles 26:9; 2 Kings 14:13; Daniel 9:25; Ezekiel 48:30;...
The city — Shall be built round, as largely as ever....