Shall, or "came" into captivity, Baruch vi. 6., Psalm cxxv. 6., and Isaias lxvi. 20. --- Way. They shall find every accommodation, and plenty of water, Isaias xxxv. 7., and xlix. 10. --- Born. Chaldean, "beloved." I will treat the ten tribes as well as Juda. Christ inebriates his disciples with his graces. (Calmet) --- Ephraim shall be treated with all the love and attention shewn to the first-born. (Worthington)
Verse Jeremiah 31:9. _THEY SHALL COME WITH WEEPING_] Duly penetrated with a sense of their sins, they shall deeply deplore them; and, while weeping for them, earnestly _supplicate_ God to have mercy u...
WEEPING - For joy, not for sorrow. SUPPLICATIONS - The conviction that God is guiding them, encourages them to pray. EPHRAIM IS MY FIRSTBORN - The house of Joseph is thus to be restored to its old p...
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
JEREMIAH 31:7 (suggestive of Deutero-Isaiah). Let there be joy that Yahweh hath saved His people, for He will gather all to Palestine (hither, Jeremiah 31:8), and they will come penitently to the Divi...
RIVERS. streams. Hebrew nahal. a wady. EPHRAIM IS MY FIRSTBORN. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 4:22). App-92. "My firstborn" occurs nowhere else. Compare Psalms 89:27. Ephraim is put by Figure of sp...
Jeremiah 31:1. See introd. summary to the section. Jeremiah 31:1, virtually a repetition of Jeremiah 30:22, should be joined to the previous ch....
These _vv_. are probably on the whole post-exilic, having close affinities with 2 Isaiah....
_with weeping_ tears of contrition, cp. Jeremiah 3:21. But LXX, "They went forth with weeping, but with consolation will I bring them back," though giving quite a different turn to the passage, may we...
DISCOURSE: 1070 THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS Jeremiah 31:8. 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 wi...
DISCOURSE: 1069 THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS Jeremiah 31:7. 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...
BEHOLD, &C.— The reader will understand these verses best by referring to Isaiah 35:5; Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 41:18; Isaiah 49:10 where that prophe
B. A New Consolation Jeremiah 31:7-20 Jeremiah 31:7 sets the tone for the four paragraphs which follow. The prophet foresees the day when salvation will be accomplished and a new joy will fill the hea...
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...
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....
WITH WEEPING] tears at once of contrition and joy. EPHRAIM _is_ MY FIRSTBORN] see 1 Chronicles 5:1. God will not forget the house of Joseph, the head of northern Israel....
THEY SHALL COME WITH WEEPING... — The present version agrees with the Hebrew punctuation, but a slight change would give, _They shall come with weeping and with supplications; I will lead them; I will...
בִּ בְכִ֣י יָבֹ֗אוּ וּֽ בְ תַחֲנוּנִים֮ אֹֽוב
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
15-34, AN EVERLASTING LOVE Jeremiah 31:1-9 It is all-inclusive: _all the families of Israel_. It is patient under provocation: during forty years it bore with Israel. It has a drawing-power which ove...
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...
They shall come with (m) weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of (n) waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble: for I am a father t...
I do not doubt, but that these verses had respect to the bringing back the people from Babylon. But, I still think, the Holy Ghost had yet a much greater object in view, in bringing back the Lord's he...
The Prophet still pursues the same subject; but he adds, that though they went with weeping into exile, yet that would be no impediment, that God should not restore them again to their own country: fo...
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...
THEY SHALL COME WITH WEEPING,.... For joy, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe; of which there are instances, Genesis 29:11; so the Jews will come to Christ, and to the Gospel church, as well as into the...
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,...
_Behold, I will bring them from the north country_ Here God himself undertakes to conduct home the remnant of his people from the countries through which they had been scattered; and the promise relat...
THE DECREE OF RESTORATION AND ITS EXECUTION...
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them, with tears of mingled joy and penitence, on account of the unmerited grace of God in accepting them into His kingdom. I WILL CAUS...
SUPPLICATIONS: Or, favours...
1-9 God assures his people that he will again take them into covenant relation to himself. When brought very low, and difficulties appear, it is good to remember that it has been so with the church f...
THEY SHALL COME WITH WEEPING; some think that it had been better translated, _They went weeping_; for though the verb be the future tense in the Hebrew, yet that tense hath often the signification of...
Jeremiah 31:9 come H935 (H8799) weeping H1065 supplications H8469 lead H2986 (H8686) walk H3212 (H8686) rivers...
YHWH WILL LEAD THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL BACK FROM EXILE AS A FATHER DOES HIS CHILDREN AND ON THE HEIGHT OF ZION THEY WILL REJOICE IN THE RESULTING GLORIOUS PROVISION OF YHWH (JEREMIAH 31:7). In striking...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time, faith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people._ How divinely he talks, as only God can talk These people had rejected...
Jeremiah 31:1. At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people._ During the Israelites' banishment to Babylon, God's covenant with them...
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...
_They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them._ THE PENITENT SINNER RETURNING TO HIS GOD I. Some of the first steps by which a sinner returns to his offended God. 1. Contrit...
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 31:9 God will provide for all their needs as the exiles return. FATHER TO ISRAEL. See Exodus 4:22;...
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...
1 Chronicles 29:10; 2 Corinthians 6:18; 2 Corinthians 7:9; Daniel 9:17;...
With weeping — Some think that it had been better translated, they went weeping; for though the verb be the future tense in the Hebrew, yet that tense has often the signification of the preterperfect...