Jeremiah 31:9

Verse Jeremiah 31:9. They shall come with weeping] Duly penetrated with a sense of their sins, they shall deeply deplore them; and, while weeping for them, earnestly supplicate God to have mercy upon them.

By the rivers of waters] I will so guide and provide for them in the arid deserts, that they shall find streams of water whenever necessary. Every one knows of how much consequence water is to travellers in the eastern deserts.

Ephraim is my first-born.] Ephraim, being the most considerable, is often put for the whole of the ten tribes.