The Lord's reply to the joyous acclamation. Cp. Isaiah 42:16; Isaiah 40:11.
the blind and the lame, etc.] None shall be omitted. Even those who would naturally have most difficulty in travelling shall return.
hither to Palestine, where the prophet is now writing.
Verse Jeremiah 31:8. _I WILL BRING THEM FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY_] From Babylon. _FROM THE COASTS OF THE EARTH_] The ten tribes were carried away partly into Assyria by Tiglath-pileser, and partly int...
THE COASTS OF THE EARTH - See Jeremiah 6:22 note. THITHER - Really, here. Not to the north country, but to Palestine, where Jeremiah wrote. A company is the word constantly used of Israel at the Exod...
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 31:7 (suggestive of Deutero-Isaiah). Let there be joy that Yahweh hath saved His people, for He will gather all to Palestine (hither, Jeremiah 31:8), and they will come penitently to the Divi...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ GATHER. gather out. COASTS. borders, or extremities. COMPANY. an organized community. THITHER. hither....
DISCOURSE: 1069 THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS Jeremiah 31:7. Thus saith the Lord; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations; publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy...
DISCOURSE: 1070 THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS Jeremiah 31:8. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman wi...
BEHOLD, &C.— The reader will understand these verses best by referring to Isaiah 35:5; Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 41:18; Isaiah 49:10 where that prophe
B. A New Consolation Jeremiah 31:7-20 Jeremiah 31:7 sets the tone for the four paragraphs which follow. The prophet foresees the day when salvation will be accomplished and a new joy will fill the hea...
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together:...
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....
THE BLIND, etc.] None, even the feeblest, shall be left behind. THITHER] RV 'hither' to Palestine....
AND WITH THEM THE BLIND AND THE LAME... — The vision of restoration continues, and the prophet sees in the spirit the great company of those that return. Even those who are commonly left behind in suc...
הִנְנִי֩ מֵבִ֨יא אֹותָ֜ם מֵ אֶ֣רֶץ צָפֹ֗ון וְ
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
15-34, AN EVERLASTING LOVE Jeremiah 31:1-9 It is all-inclusive: _all the families of Israel_. It is patient under provocation: during forty years it bore with Israel. It has a drawing-power which ove...
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...
_Together. All shall hasten, and there shall be no impediment, Isaias xxxv. 5._...
I do not doubt, but that these verses had respect to the bringing back the people from Babylon. But, I still think, the Holy Ghost had yet a much greater object in view, in bringing back the Lord's he...
The Prophet again confirms the same truth, but with amplification. For this oracle is not only prefaced as having proceeded from God, but that the address might be more forcible, he introduces God him...
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...
BEHOLD, I WILL BRING THEM FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY,.... As from Babylon, at the end of the seventy years' captivity, which lay north of Judea; so, in the latter day, from those northern countries, as ou...
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together...
_Behold, I will bring them from the north country_ Here God himself undertakes to conduct home the remnant of his people from the countries through which they had been scattered; and the promise relat...
Behold, I will bring them, the members of Jehovah's Church, FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY AND GATHER THEM FROM THE COASTS OF THE EARTH, from its most remote boundaries, AND WITH THEM THE BLIND AND THE LAME,...
THE DECREE OF RESTORATION AND ITS EXECUTION...
1-9 God assures his people that he will again take them into covenant relation to himself. When brought very low, and difficulties appear, it is good to remember that it has been so with the church f...
BY THE NORTH COUNTRY, is unquestionably meant Babylon, and the land of the Chaldeans, and those places which were northward of Jerusalem; and by the COASTS OF THE EARTH, all other parts into which any...
Jeremiah 31:8 bring H935 (H8688) north H6828 country H776 gather H6908 (H8765) ends H3411 earth H776 blind...
YHWH WILL LEAD THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL BACK FROM EXILE AS A FATHER DOES HIS CHILDREN AND ON THE HEIGHT OF ZION THEY WILL REJOICE IN THE RESULTING GLORIOUS PROVISION OF YHWH (JEREMIAH 31:7). In striking...
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....
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 Corinthians 8:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Ezekiel 20:34; Ezekiel 20:41;...