Backsliding — Running after idols; or seeking help from foreign nations, instead of applying to God. A woman — This seems to be a promise of the Jewish church in its time, and of the gospel — church, prevailing over all its enemies; though, considering the fewness of the church's members, with the multitude of its enemies, and their power, it seemed as strange a thing, as for a woman to prevail against a strong and mighty man.
Verse Jeremiah 31:22. _A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN_] נקבה תסובב גבר _nekebah_ _tesobeb gaber_, "A weak woman shall compass or circumvent a strong man." This place has given much trouble to Biblical c...
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...
GO ABOUT: i.e. in order to elude by withdrawing. Elsewhere only in Song of Solomon 5:6. NEW THING. The interpretation must satisfy this condition. IN THE EARTH. in the land. This is another conditio...
See introd. summary to the section. These striking _vv_. may be confidently considered as stamped with Jeremiah's personality....
_How long wilt thou go hither and thither_ How long wilt thou hesitate to return? A sign follows, in order to induce Israel to complete her reconciliation with her offended God. _backsliding_ lit. _b...
HOW LONG, &C.— _How long wilt thou turn backward,_ or _be a backslider, O rebellious daughter?_ Houbigant. In which words, says he, the Jews are described in their present state, refusing assent to th...
C. A New Creation Jeremiah 31:21-22 TRANSLATION (21) Erect for yourself road marks, set up guideposts! Set your heart toward the highway, the way you have walked! Return, O Virgin of Israel, return...
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. HOW LONG WILT THOU GO ABOUT - namely, after human helps (J...
31:22 man. (b-25) _ Geber_ . see Job 3:3 ....
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....
COMPASS] i.e. as protector. In the peaceful future the women will be a sufficient guard against danger from without, while the men perform their daily tasks. 23-26. The Lord now turns from Israel (Ep...
HOW LONG WILT THOU GO ABOUT...? — The word describes the restless pacing to and fro of impatient, unsatisfied desire. The backsliding daughter — _i.e.,_ the adulterous yet now penitent wife — is descr...
עַד ־מָתַי֙ תִּתְחַמָּקִ֔ין הַ בַּ֖ת הַ שֹּֽׁ
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...
How long wilt thou wander about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created (d) a new thing in the earth, A woman shall encompass a man. (d) Because their deliverance from Babylon was a fi...
Daughter. Bury thy dead, and delay thy return no longer. The Israelites did not soon make use of the leave granted by Cyrus. (Calmet) --- Man. Hebrew, "a hero." (Tirinus) --- The fathers generally exp...
I do not presume to decide upon this passage, but I venture to propose my views of it to the Reader. I do not object to the comment of those who suppose the return of the people from Babylon might be...
As the Prophet had promised a return to the people, he now reproves especially the Israelites, who looked here and there, and never could acquiesce in the word of God alone: for it is a common thing w...
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...
HOW LONG WILT THOU GO ABOUT, O THOU BACKSLIDING DAUGHTER?.... From place to, place, from country to country, from one kingdom to another, as the Jews do to this day; and not return unto the Lord, and...
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. Ver. 22. _How long will thou go about?_] Hunting after human...
_How long wilt thou go about_ Or, go out of the right way, or follow thine own imaginations, _O thou backsliding daughter_ Thou that didst formerly revolt from thy sovereign Lord, and decline from his...
SORROW TURNED INTO JOY...
How long wilt thou go about, turning first one way and then the other, like a dissolute and wanton woman, O THOU BACKSLIDING DAUGHTER? the congregation which had so often proved apostate. FOR THE LORD...
21-26 The way from the bondage of sin to the liberty of God's children, is a high-way. It is plain, it is safe; yet none are likely to walk in it, unless they set their hearts towards it. They are en...
OLBHeb; That the Jews are here meant by the BACKSLIDING DAUGHTER is out of question; but what _going about_ is here intended is not so plain. Some interpret it of their running after idols; some, of t...
Jeremiah 31:22 about H2559 (H8691) backsliding H7728 daughter H1323 LORD H3068 created H1254 (H8804) thing H2319
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 31:22. _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 31:18. _I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus;_ It is God who is here speaking. There is never a moan, or a sob, or a cry,or a sigh, but God hears it. The Lord is very quick of...
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...
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 31:22 HOW LONG WILL YOU WAVER, that is, how long will you wait to fulfill the prophecy of v. Jeremiah 31:6? faithle
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...
Galatians 4:4; Genesis 3:15; Hosea 11:7; Hosea 14:4; Hosea 14:7;...