And it shall come to pass that like as I have watched over them, regarding them with wakeful attention, to pluck up, and to break down, or "to root out," and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict, the heaping of the synonyms emphasizing the thoroughness of the Lord's punishment upon His apostate people, so will I watch over them, namely, in the promised restoration, to build and to plant, saith the Lord.
The prophet shows that the happiness of Israel and Judah, united in one prosperous nation, will rest upon the consciousness that their chastisement has been the result of sins which they have themselv...
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
Yahweh will replenish the scanty populations of both kingdoms, and will establish them (for the terms, _cf._ Jeremiah 1:10). In the future, individual responsibility for sin will replace the old doctr...
WATCHED. Compare Jeremiah 1:12 (same word). AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6)....
_I have watched over them_ The Heb. verb is the same as that of ch. Jeremiah 1:12, where see note. _to pluck up, etc_.] Cp. ch. Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 18:7;...
See introd. summary to the section....
D. New Conditions Jeremiah 31:23-30 TRANSLATION (23) Thus says the LORD of hosts the God of Israel: Yet they shall speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I reverse their fortunes...
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,...
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....
See on Jeremiah 1:10. 29-34. The new covenant between Jehovah and His people. 29, 30. The proverb here quoted, which was common among the Jews, induced them to throw upon their predecessors the respo...
LIKE AS I HAVE WATCHED OVER THEM... — Some twenty-three years had passed since the prophet’s call to his office, but the words that called him to it are living still. The very symbolism of the “almond...
וְ הָיָ֞ה כַּ אֲשֶׁ֧ר שָׁקַ֣דְתִּי עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם...
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
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...
Perhaps, in allusion to the flourishing state of Christ's church, under the latter day dispensation, this prophesy had respect. But what I particularly desire the Reader to remark with me is, the diff...
By these words the Prophet confirms what he had said; for the Israelites and the Jews might have ever made this objection, “Why should God promise to be the liberator of his people, whom he had suffer...
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...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, [THAT] LIKE AS I HAVE WATCHED OVER THEM,.... In providence; looked upon them with an eye of vindictive justice; observed all their actions and motions; diligently attended t...
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...
_I will sow the house of Israel_ Under the captivity the land lay desolate, without man and beast, Jeremiah 33:12; but here it is promised that it should be again inhabited and replenished with both....
27-34 The people of God shall become numerous and prosperous. In Hebrews 8:8; Hebrews 8:9, this place is quoted as the sum of the covenant of grace made with believers in Jesus Christ. Not, I will gi...
Nothing can produce in God a change of counsels, purposes, and decrees, for he is not as man that he should lie or repent, he is the God that changeth not, but men's reformation may produce in him a c...
Jeremiah 31:28 over H8245 (H8804) up H5428 (H8800) down H5422 (H8800) down H2040 (H8800) destroy...
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...
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 ISRAEL AND JUDAH IN THE LAND AND WILL BUILD THEM UP (JEREMIAH 31:27). YHWH's promise is that He will, once the time is ripe, sow the land with men and animals so...
Jeremiah 31:27. 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. And it shall come to pass, that like...
Jeremiah 31:22. _For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man._ Here is a prophecy of the birth of Immanuel, God with us, born of a woman by the supernatural power...
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...
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 31:28 At that time God will be as determined to PLANT and BUILD as he was to tear down and DESTROY (see...
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...
Acts 15:16; Amos 9:11; Daniel 9:14; Daniel 9:25; Ecclesiastes 3:2;...