George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 31:14
Fatness. Abundant crops secured them more plentiful tythes[tithes], as long as the people preserved their religion. (Haydock) --- No nation had more priests, or better provided for. (Calmet)
Fatness. Abundant crops secured them more plentiful tythes[tithes], as long as the people preserved their religion. (Haydock) --- No nation had more priests, or better provided for. (Calmet)
Verse Jeremiah 31:14. _AND I WILL SATIATE THE SOUL OF THE PRIESTS_] The worship of God being restored, they shall have their proper share of the victims brought to the temple....
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...
These _vv_. are probably on the whole post-exilic, having close affinities with 2 Isaiah....
See introd. summary to the section....
_satiate_ lit. _water_. _the soul of the priests with fatness_ The sacrifices shall be so numerous that the priests and their families shall have more than enough for their share. The priest's portion...
DISCOURSE: 1071 THE PREACHED GOSPEL A SOURCE OF BLESSINGS TO THE WORLD Jeremiah 31:10. Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattereth Israel...
I WILL SATIATE, &C.— See Psalms 36:8; Psalms 63:5.Isaiah 55:2....
2. _The disheartened_ (Jeremiah 31:10-14) TRANSLATION (10) Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the distant isles! Say, The one who scattered Israel has gathered him, and keeps him...
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. MY GOODNESS - ()....
31:14 goodness, (d-20) Or 'good things,' and see Deuteronomy 6:11 ....
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 sacrifices shall be so numerous that the priests and their families shall have abundance for their share: see Leviticus 7:31....
(12-14) THEREFORE THEY SHALL COME AND SING... — The vision of return culminates in a picture of the prosperity of the restored kingdom. The “goodness of the Lord” is, as in Hosea 3:5, the attribute on...
וְ רִוֵּיתִ֛י נֶ֥פֶשׁ הַ כֹּהֲנִ֖ים דָּ֑שֶׁן...
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
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...
And I will abundantly satisfy the soul of the priests with (s) fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. (s) Meaning, the spirit of wisdom, knowledge and zeal....
I do not detain the Reader with any comment here: for the words are too plain to need any, and too sweet to admit of any without injury. Let the Reader read the passage again and again, and then mark...
This verse is connected with the former; for what the Prophet had said generally of the whole people, he now distinctly declares respecting the priests, for they were, as it were, the heart of the peo...
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...
AND I WILL SATIATE THE SOUL OF THE PRIESTS WITH FATNESS,.... Meaning either the ministers of the Gospel, who should not only be liberally provided for as to their maintenance, which is too low a sense...
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. Ver. 14. _And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,_] _i.e.,...
_They shall sing in the height of Zion_ By _the height of Zion_ is meant the temple, built upon a hill adjoining to mount Zion, and it is here to be taken metaphorically, as it frequently is in the wr...
THE DECREE OF RESTORATION AND ITS EXECUTION...
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, namely, by the great number of the fat pieces of thank-offerings, AND MY PEOPLE SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH MY GOODNESS, SAITH THE LORD. Thus the M...
10-17 He that scattered Israel, knows where to find them. It is comfortable to observe the goodness of the Lord in the gifts of providence. But our souls are never valuable as gardens, unless watered...
By PRIESTS some understand the ministers of the gospel, whom God here promiseth liberally to provide for; or rather, by giving a success to their ministry, and letting them see the fruit of their labo...
Jeremiah 31:14 satiate H7301 (H8765) soul H5315 priests H3548 abundance H1880 people H5971 satisfied H7646 (H8799
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...
_My people shall be satisfied with My goodness._ A PROMISE FOR GOD’S PEOPLE I. Ascertain the right application of the promise. “My people.” The term is restrictive. Only the people of God. And it is...
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 Peter 2:9; 2 Chronicles 6:41; Deuteronomy 33:8; Ephesians 1:3;...