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.
Ver. 16. Refrain thy voice from weeping.] Take up in time, O Rachel, and the rest; God comforteth the abject, 2Co 7:7 he restoreth comfort to his mourners. Isa 57:18
Verse Jeremiah 31:16. _THEY SHALL COME AGAIN FROM THE LAND OF THE ENEMY._] This could not be said of the _murdered innocents_ at Bethlehem; they never came again; but the Jews, who had gone into capti...
The religious character of the restoration of the ten tribes. Chastisement brought repentance, and with it forgiveness; therefore God decrees their restoration. Jeremiah 31:15 Ramah, mentioned becaus...
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 hears Rachel (the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, Genesis 30:24; Genesis 35:16 ff.) weeping at (her grave near) Ramah, for her children, the northern exiles. He bids her refrain, in the certai...
SHALL BE REWARDED. there exists. reward. Hebrew. _yesh._ See note on Jeremiah 31:6. COME AGAIN: i.e. in resurrection. Compare Jeremiah 31:15....
Rachel, the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, is heard weeping for her lost sons. She is bidden to dry her tears, for there is hope....
See introd. summary to the section. These striking _vv_. may be confidently considered as stamped with Jeremiah's personality....
_thy work shall be rewarded_ As children have been in thy life and thy death a subject of pain and grief to thee, and as these thy descendants again have grievously perished, so the recompense for all...
FOR THY WORK SHALL BE REWARDED— The Scriptures frequently allude to the years or days of a hireling: see Job 7 l, 2 Jeremiah 14:6. Isaiah 16:4; Isaiah 40:10;...
3. _The disconsolate_ (Jeremiah 31:15-17) TRANSLATION (15) Thus says the LORD: Listen! In Ramah lamentation is heard! bitter weeping! Rachel is weeping over her children. She refuses to be comforted...
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...
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....
THY WORK SHALL BE REWARDED] Rachel by the death of her descendants had, as it were, been deprived of the reward for which she had laboured in bearing ajid bringing up children. Now by their restoratio...
THY WORK SHALL BE REWARDED, SAITH THE LORD. — Literally, _there-shall be a reward for thy work._ The words are a reproduction of the old prophecy of Azariah, the son of Oded (2 Chronicles 15:7). Rache...
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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...
_Reward. A time fixed for thy tears being dried up, Isaias xvi. 14., and xl. 10._...
The Evangelist hath made application of what is here said to the murder of the young children by Herod: and thereby hath very clearly shown, that the whole of this blessed chapter is of gospel signifi...
_Refrain, _he says, _thy voice from weeping _The word is בכה _beke: _as he had mentioned this word before in the second place, “lamentation, the weeping of bitterness,” so he now repeats the same here...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, REFRAIN THY VOICE FROM WEEPING, AND THINE EYES FROM TEARS,.... Though sorrow on such an occasion may be lawfully indulged, yet it ought to be moderated; and attention should be gi...
_Thus saith the Lord; A voice_, &c. Here “the scene of this prophecy changes, and two new personages are successively introduced, in order to diversify the subject, and to impress it more strongly on...
SORROW TURNED INTO JOY...
Thus saith the Lord, Refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears, bidding all sorrow be far removed; FOR THY WORK SHALL BE REWARDED, namely, that of bearing and bringing up her children,...
10-17 He that scattered Israel, knows where to find them. It is comfortable to observe the goodness of the Lord in the gifts of providence. But our souls are never valuable as gardens, unless watered...
OLBHeb; The prophet in this and the following verses is brought in as one appointed of God to quiet and comfort the Rachel before mentioned, calling to her to quiet herself, and not to mourn so excess...
Jeremiah 31:16 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 Refrain H4513 (H8798) voice H6963 weeping H1065 eyes H5869 tears...
RACHEL'S WEEPING WILL, HOWEVER, BE REWARDED, FOR HER CHILDREN WILL BE RETURNED TO HER, AND THEY WILL COME TO YHWH IN REPENTANCE AND BE RECEIVED BY HIM AS A BELOVED SON (JEREMIAH 31:16). The call now c...
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...
_A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children._ INNOCENTS’ DAY Undoubtedly it seems strange, that one of the earliest consequences of the incarnation o...
_Refrain thy voice from weeping._ BEREAVED PARENTS COMFORTED I. It is not sinful for parents to be grieved and sorrowful for the death of their children. If we do not grieve when we are thus stricken...
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 31:16 God promises that Rachel’s CHILDREN will return from exile. ⇐...
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 Thessalonians 4:14; 2 Chronicles 15:7; Ecclesiastes 9:7; Ezekiel 11:17;...