Verse Jeremiah 31:4. O virgin of Israel] Israelites in general; now called virgin, because restored to their ancient purity.
With thy tabrets] Women in general played on these; they were used in times of rejoicing, and accompanied with dancing. To these customs, still preserved, the prophet alludes.
O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL - i. e., the whole people (compare Jeremiah 14:17 note)....
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
This prophecy of the restoration of the northern kingdom may belong, like ch. 3, to Jeremiah's early period. The northern Israelites shall be gathered from exile (the wilderness). Yahweh will appear f...
AGAIN... AGAIN, &C. App-92. Figure of speech _Anaphora_. TABRETS. See notes on Exodus 15:20; 1 Samuel 10:5....
Jeremiah 31:1. See introd. summary to the section. Jeremiah 31:1, virtually a repetition of Jeremiah 30:22, should be joined to the previous ch....
_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_...
AGAIN I WILL BUILD THEE— "Thy inhabitants shall be again restored, who shall rebuild their cities and habitations which lay desolate during the time of their captivity: thou shalt again hear rejoicing...
H. THE BLESSINGS OF RESTORATION Jeremiah 31:2-40 In this second major section of the Book of Consolation the focus is upon the blessings which those who return from exile will enjoy. Both Israel, the...
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. AGAIN I WILL BUILD THEE...
TABRETS] tambourines....
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....
THOU SHALT AGAIN BE ADORNED WITH THY TABRETS... — The implied idea is that of a time of rejoicing after triumphant restoration (the “building” of the previous sentence is more than that of material wa...
עֹ֤וד אֶבְנֵךְ֙ וְֽ נִבְנֵ֔ית בְּתוּלַ֖ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל...
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...
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again (f) be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. (f) You will still hav...
All these blessings arise out of what went before. The Church was now partly in bondage, and the residue of the people were shortly to be sent thither. But the Lord looks beyond times of bondage, and...
Jeremiah, in this verse, proceeds with the same subject, — that though there would be the long time of seventy years, yet God would become the liberator of his Church. Length of time might have exting...
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...
AGAIN, I WILL BUILD THEE, AND THOU SHALT BE BUILT, O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL,.... The same with "all the families of Israel", Jeremiah 31:1; who, when converted, will be espoused to Christ as a chaste virgin...
_Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry._ Ver. 4. _Again I will b...
_The Lord hath appeared of old unto me_ The prophet here personifies the Jewish nation, the people spoken of in the foregoing verse, who are introduced as calling to mind how God, in times of old, had...
THE DECREE OF RESTORATION AND ITS EXECUTION...
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel, be established for sound prosperity; THOU SHALT AGAIN BE ADORNED WITH THY TABRETS, marching in processions with tambourines, or ti...
TABRETS: Or, timbrels...
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...
As upon their being carried into captivity both their civil state and church, which either of them were as a building framed together, were broken and pulled down, and they were scattered here and the...
Jeremiah 31:4 build H1129 (H8799) rebuilt H1129 (H8738) virgin H1330 Israel H3478 adorned H5710 (H8799) tambourine
AS THEY WERE OF OLD DELIVERED FROM EGYPT, SO ISRAEL ARE NOW AGAIN TO BE REDEEMED AND DELIVERED, SO THAT THEY MIGHT FIND REST BECAUSE OF YHWH'S LOVE FOR THEM (JEREMIAH 31:2). The reference back to the...
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 31:4 VIRGIN ISRAEL. The northern kingdom (vv. Jeremiah 31:5)....
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 Samuel 18:6; 1 Samuel 18:7; 2 Kings 19:21; Acts 15:16; Amos 5:2;...