INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 30 This chapter contains a prophecy of the call and conversion of the Jews in the latter day; which being a matter of moment and importance, and that it might continue, and be read hereafter, it is ordered to be written in a book, Jeremiah 30:1; the thing itself is expresse... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD,.... The word of prophecy, us the Targum. Some make this to be the "thirteenth" sermon of the prophet's; it is a consolatory one, as Kimchi observes: SAYING; as follows:... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SPEAKETH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL,.... Who is their covenant God; has not forgotten them; still has a regard for them; and speaks after the following comfortable manner concerning them: SAYING, WRITE THEE ALL THE WORDS THAT I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO THEE IN A BOOK; being things of consequence, that the... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR, LO, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD,.... And they are yet to come; the prophecy is not yet fulfilled. Kimchi says this belongs to the days of the Messiah; but not to his first coming, or to his coming in the flesh, which the Jews vainly expect; but to his spiritual coming in the latter day: THAT... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT THE LORD SPAKE CONCERNING ISRAEL, AND CONCERNING JUDAH. Which follow in this chapter and the next; first concerning Israel, the ten tribes; and then concerning the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, even concerning all Israel; whereas, if this prophecy only respects the... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... Yet what follows are the words of others; wherefore some supply it, "for thus saith the Lord, the nations shall say" p; so Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it as what the Gentiles will say in the times of the Messiah; but it might be better supplied, "ye shall say"; that... [ Continue Reading ]
ASK YE NOW, AND SEE WHETHER A MAN DOTH TRAVAIL WITH CHILD?.... Look into the histories of former times, inquire of those most versed in them, whether ever there was such a thing in the world as that a man should travail with child; ask one and, another you see in distress, whether that is their case... [ Continue Reading ]
ALAS! FOR THAT DAY [IS] GREAT,.... For sorrow and distress: SO THAT NONE [IS] LIKE IT; such were the times of Jerusalem's siege and destruction by the Romans; and which was an emblem of those times of trouble from antichrist in the latter day; see Matthew 24:21; IT [IS] EVEN THE TIME OF JACOB'S TR... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... When the time is come for Jacob to be saved out of his trouble: [THAT] I WILL BREAK HIS YOKE FROM OFF THY NECK; not the yoke of the king of Babylon, but of antichrist, and of all the antichristian states, by whom the people of God... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEY SHALL SERVE THE LORD THEIR GOD,.... And him only, in a spiritual manner, in righteousness and true holiness, with reverence and godly fear; having respect to all his precepts and ordinances, and every branch of religious worship; joining themselves to Gospel churches, and worshipping along... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE FEAR THOU NOT, O MY SERVANT JACOB, SAITH THE LORD,.... Since the Messiah, who is the Lord God, should be raised up to thorn, whom they should serve, and he should save them; and so had nothing to fear from their enemies; and had no reason to doubt of salvation and deliverance, seeing so gr... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I [AM] WITH THEE, SAITH THE LORD, TO SAVE THEE,.... Not only from temporal enemies, but from spiritual ones, sin, Satan, and the world; and to save them with a spiritual and everlasting salvation, which the presence and power of God, through his rich grace, will bring all his people to: THOUGH... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, THY BRUISE [IS] INCURABLE,.... By themselves or others, in all human appearance; there was no help for them from men; their case seemed desperate; there was no likelihood of their recovery to their former state and glory, as at this day the case of the Jews appears to be; th... [ Continue Reading ]
[THERE IS] NONE TO PLEAD THY CAUSE, THAT THOU MAYEST BE BOUND UP,.... None that will give themselves the trouble to look into their wound to judge of it; to consult, and reason, and debate about the nature of it; and what methods are most advisable to take for the healing and binding of it up: or, a... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THY LOVERS HAVE FORGOTTEN THEE,.... The Egyptians and Assyrians, whom they sought unto for help, and entered into an alliance with, and who promised them great things; but forgot their promises and forsook them: THEY SEEK THEE NOT; to ask of thy welfare, as the Targum adds; they do not, visit t... [ Continue Reading ]
WHY CRIEST THOU FOR THINE AFFLICTION?.... Or complainest of the hardness, and heaviness, and continuance of it, when there was such a just cause for it? when men have sinned at a high rate, they have no reason to complain of the punishment of their sins, Lamentations 3:39; THY SORROW [IS] INCURABLE... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE ALL THEY THAT DEVOUR THEE SHALL BE DEVOURED,.... Thus rendering the words, they are to be connected with Jeremiah 30:10; and all between to be put into a parenthesis: but rather, in connection with the preceding words, they should be rendered "nevertheless", or "notwithstanding" y; though... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I WILL RESTORE HEALTH TO THEE,.... That is, bring thee into a comfortable and prosperous condition, both in church and state, with respect to things religions and civil: as the afflictions and distresses of the Jewish nation are expressed by sickness, wounds, and bruises; so their prosperity, bo... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SAITH THE LORD, I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF JACOB'S TENTS,.... That is, the captives of Israel, the inhabitants of them; alluding to the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, dwelling in tents, and to the Israelites in the wilderness; and fitly expresses the present unsettled state of... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OUT OF THEM SHALL PROCEED THANKSGIVING, AND THE VOICE OF THEM THAT MAKE MERRY,.... That is, out of Jacob's tents and dwelling places, the city and palaces of Jerusalem; for those who will inhabit them, when thus rebuilt, sensible of the divine favours, and thankful for them, will offer not any c... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR CHILDREN ALSO SHALL BE AS AFORETIME,.... In the streets of Jerusalem, numerous and free; no more in a strange land, or subject to others, Zechariah 8:5; and educated in a religious manner. Some think it refers to the times of the patriarchs before the law was given; and that the meaning is, th... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEIR NOBLES SHALL BE OF THEMSELVES,.... Or, "his noble One" d; Jacob's noble One, the Messiah, in whom all the promises centre; and whose incarnation and priesthood are the foundation of all the things above predicted. The Targum interprets these words of him; "their King shall be anointed fro... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE,.... For many hundred years the people of the Jews have been called "Loammi" or, "ye are not my people", Hosea 1:9; but now being converted, the covenant of God's grace shall be renewed, and a fresh manifestation and application of it made unto them; and they partaking of t... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, THE WHIRLWIND OF THE LORD GOETH FORTH WITH FURY,.... That is, the wrath of God, which like a whirlwind comes suddenly, with great force and strength, and carries all before it; there is no withstanding it; such is the wrath of God against the enemies of his church and people: A CONTINUING W... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD SHALL NOT RETURN,.... This explains what is meant by the continuing whirlwind in Jeremiah 30:23; UNTIL HE HATH DONE [IT]; his whole will and pleasure; brought Babylon to ruin, and destroyed all the antichristian powers: AND UNTIL HE HATH PERFORMED THE INTENTS OF HIS HE... [ Continue Reading ]