Surely — After God had changed our hearts, we repented. I smote — After God had instructed us, by his prophets, by our afflictions, and by his Holy Spirit, we smote upon our thighs in testimony of our sorrow. The reproach — The just punishment of the sins which I had long ago committed.
Verse Jeremiah 31:19. _AFTER THAT I WAS TURNED_] Converted from my sin, folly, and idolatry. _I REPENTED_] To _conviction of sin_, I now added _contrition for_ _sin_. Conviction, in this sense of th...
The religious character of the restoration of the ten tribes. Chastisement brought repentance, and with it forgiveness; therefore God decrees their restoration. Jeremiah 31:15 Ramah, mentioned becaus...
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 hears Rachel (the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, Genesis 30:24; Genesis 35:16 ff.) weeping at (her grave near) Ramah, for her children, the northern exiles. He bids her refrain, in the certai...
See introd. summary to the section. These striking _vv_. may be confidently considered as stamped with Jeremiah's personality....
_after that I was turned_ rather (see preceding note), _after I turned_. Ephraim turns, and his repentance is the completion of his conversion. The Heb. text which seems to underlie the LXX rendering,...
DISCOURSE: 1072 THE REFLECTIONS OF A PENITENT Jeremiah 31:18. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: tu...
SURELY, &C.— _The smiting of the thigh_ is an expression of great surprise and concern. The Lord commands Ezekiel to deplore the miseries of his people, and to smite upon his thigh; chap. Jeremiah 21:...
4. _The despondent_ (Jeremiah 31:18-20) TRANSLATION (18) I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning him self, You have chastened me and I was chastened, like a calf that would not be taught; restore me th...
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. AFTER THAT I WA...
INSTRUCTED] by punishment. I SMOTE, etc.] in contrition. THE REPROACH OF MY YOUTH] the shame incurred through the sins of his youth....
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....
AFTER THAT I WAS TURNED. — The words have been referred by some commentators (Hitzig) to the previous turning away from God — the apostasy of Ephraim; but the repetition of the word that had been used...
כִּֽי ־אַחֲרֵ֤י שׁוּבִי֙ נִחַ֔מְתִּי וְ אַֽחֲרֵי֙...
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...
Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon [my] (z) thigh: I was ashamed, and even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth. (z) In sign of repentance...
_Thigh, through grief. Femur m\'9crenti plangere dextra. (Ovid, Metam. xi.) --- Cyrus struck his thigh, mounted his horse, and went to attend the funeral of Abradates. (Xenophon vii.) --- So did Achil...
Perhaps there is not a more beautiful and interesting representation in the whole compass of the Old Testament scripture, than what is here drawn, of the melting heart of a sinner by grace; and of the...
Jeremiah now proceeds with what he had before briefly touched upon, even to shew that the punishment inflicted on the Israelites had not been without its fruit. And this is a doctrine which ought espe...
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...
SURELY AFTER THAT I WAS TURNED I REPENTED,.... Ephraim's prayer was answered; as he prayed he might be turned, he was; and when he was turned, then he repented, not only of sin in general, but of such...
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Ver. 19. _Surel...
_Surely after that I was turned, I repented_ After I was enlightened and impressed with a due sense of my duty, and of the many deviations from it of which I had been guilty, and after my will was sub...
SORROW TURNED INTO JOY...
Surely after that I was turned, I repented, or, "For after my apostasy I felt sorrow," since God wrought repentance in the heart of the true Israelites among the children of Ephraim; AND AFTER THAT I...
18-20 Ephraim (the ten tribes) is weeping for sin. He is angry at himself for his sin, and folly, and frowardness. He finds he cannot, by his own power, keep himself close with God, much less bring h...
We must consider that we are not in a history or a narration of things done, but in a prophecy foretelling what should come to pass. The prophet foretelleth that before this promised deliverance shoul...
Jeremiah 31:19 after H310 turning H7725 (H8800) repented H5162 (H8738) after H310 instructed H3045 (H8736) struck
RACHEL'S WEEPING WILL, HOWEVER, BE REWARDED, FOR HER CHILDREN WILL BE RETURNED TO HER, AND THEY WILL COME TO YHWH IN REPENTANCE AND BE RECEIVED BY HIM AS A BELOVED SON (JEREMIAH 31:16). The call now c...
REPENTED (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...
Jeremiah 31:18. _I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus;_ It is God who is here speaking. There is never a moan, or a sob, or a cry,or a sigh, but God hears it. The Lord is very quick of...
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...
_I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself._ REPENTANT EPHRAIM The real turning-point in man’s spiritual history is when he begins to accuse himself and to justify God. From self-accusation the s...
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...
2 Corinthians 7:10; 2 Corinthians 7:11; 2 Timothy 2:25; Deuteronomy 30:2;...