Jeremiah 31:4

will I build thee, and thou shalt be built For build = make to prosper, see note on Jeremiah 12:16.

O virgin of Israel The nation is addressed under the figure of a woman, as so often.

tabrets The tabret or timbrel, the Heb. tôph, the duffor diffof the Arabs, is a hoop on which pieces of brass are often fixed, and over which parchment is extended. It is thus played with the fingers like our tambourine. It was used in early times by the Syrians of Paddanaram (Genesis 31:27), played principally by women (Exodus 15:20; Jdg 11:34; 1 Samuel 18:6; Psalms 68:25), but also by prophets (1 Samuel 10:5) and by others (2 Samuel 6:5; 1 Chronicles 13:8). Peake refers for the place occupied by dancing in the religion of the later (post-exilic) period to an essay by Franz Delitzsch, Iris, pp. 189, 204.