A voice was heard upon the high places, the very scene of their idolatries becoming the scene of their open confession of their transgressions, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel, a public proclamation of their penitence; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord, their God, a fact which they now acknowledge with deep sorrow. So the Lord calls to them:
Verse Jeremiah 3:21. _A VOICE WAS HEARD UPON THE HIGH PLACES_] Here the Israelites are represented as assembled together to bewail their idolatry and to implore mercy. While thus engaged, they hear th...
UPON THE HIGH PLACES - Upon those bare table-lands, which previously had been the scene of Israel’s idolatries Jeremiah 3:2. The prophet supposes the offer of mercy to Israel if repentant to have been...
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 ...
JEREMIAH 3:19 TO JEREMIAH 4:4. A DIALOGUE OF YAHWEH'S GRACE. This directly continues Jeremiah 3:5, the I of Jeremiah 3:19 being emphatically contras
THE HIGH PLACES. the places where they had sinned. Compare Jeremiah 3:2. FOR. because....
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)...
Jeremiah 3:19 to Jeremiah 4:4. The invitation includes the whole nation, on a like condition This section should follow immediately on Jeremiah 3:5. See introd. note on...
_bare heights_ For the choice of such places for lamentation cp. ch. Jeremiah 7:29; Isaiah 15:2; Judges 11:37....
Vividly drawn picture of Judah's repentance. From the high places, the very scenes of her idolatrous excess, there comes a sound, at first of inarticulate weeping. In response to Jehovah's gracious in...
FOR THEY HAVE PERVERTED— _For that they have perverted their way, and had forgotten,_ &c....
D. The Blessings of Repentance Jeremiah 3:15-22 a TRANSLATION (15) And I will give you shepherds according to My heart who shall feed you with knowledge and wisdom. (16) And it shall come to pass whe...
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. In harmony with the proce...
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...
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...
A VOICE WAS HEARD. — Yes, the guilty wife was there, but she was also penitent. The “high places” which had been the scene of the guilt of the sons of Israel, where the cries of their orgiastic worshi...
קֹ֚ול עַל ־שְׁפָיִ֣ים נִשְׁמָ֔ע בְּכִ֥י תַחֲנוּנֵ֖י...
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...
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...
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...
(u) A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their God. (u) Signifying, tha...
_God. Hence proceed these miseries and lamentations._...
A difficulty here seemeth to have arisen in the views of such unspeakable mercy; how shall the Lord, consistent with his divine perfections, take home to his favor sinners so ungracious? And none but...
What I have stated becomes now more evident, — that the case of the Israelites is here set before the Jews, that the perverse, whom God had spared, might know that the same punishment impended over th...
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...
A VOICE WAS HEARD UPON THE HIGH PLACES,.... And so might be heard afar off; it shows that the repentance and confession of the Jews, when convinced and converted, will be very public, and made upon th...
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their God. Ver. 21. _A voice was h...
_Surely, as a wife treacherously departeth_, &c. This may be rendered, _As a woman is not faithful to her husband_, or, _her friend_, as the Hebrew רעה signifies. Here God returns to the carnal Israel...
21-25 Sin is turning aside to crooked ways. And forgetting the Lord our God is at the bottom of all sin. By sin we bring ourselves into trouble. The promise to those that return is, God will heal the...
A VOICE WAS HEARD: here the prophet seems to express Israel's repentance and turning to God; and that which they were at present engaging themselves in; (the word being participial, and in the present...
Jeremiah 3:21 voice H6963 heard H8085 (H8738) heights H8205 Weeping H1065 supplications H8469 children H1121 Israel H3
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Return. .. and I will heal your backslidings._ HOPE FOR THE WORST BACKSLIDERS I. The call from God. “Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.” 1. It is a call to come ba...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 3:21 Suddenly, a sound of the WEEPING AND PLEADING OF ISRAEL’S SONS arises from the BARE HEIGHTS. Israel’s sons finally recognize that THEY HAVE...
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...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 7:10; Ezekiel 23:35; Ezekiel 7:16; Hosea 13:6; Hosea 8:
A voice — Here the prophet seems to express Israel's repentance. Forgotten — This expresses, rather the matter or their prayer, than the cause of it....