Jeremiah 33:2
The Lord — The maker thereof, of Jerusalem, or of these promises, his name is Jehovah; he hath a sufficiency in himself to make good his word.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord — The maker thereof, of Jerusalem, or of these promises, his name is Jehovah; he hath a sufficiency in himself to make good his word.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — The Jews sally out and fight with their enemies, but to no purpose, but to fill their houses with their own dead bodies, whom I will cause in my anger to be slain.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will cure — The miserable disturbed state of a nation being compared to wounds and sickness, the restoring of it to a peaceable prosperous state is fitly called its health and cure. I will bring them again to a quiet and peaceable state in which they shall abide many days.... [ Continue Reading ]
They shalt fear — And not only so but shall fear to engage against a nation so beloved and favoured by me.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is desolate — That is, a great part of which is, and the other part shall soon be desolate.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall pass — So as to keep tally of them, as they were wont to do both morning and evening in those countries.... [ Continue Reading ]
The branch — The kings they had hitherto had of the line of David, were most of them unrighteous men, but God promises that after the captivity, they should have a branch of David who would execute judgment and righteousness in the land, for the protection and government of those that feared him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Saved — It is the opinion of some that a spiritual salvation and security is promised under these expressions, but by the most and best interpreters, a temporal salvation. This was typical of that spiritual and eternal salvation which is promised to the true Israel of God; as their rest in Canaan ty... [ Continue Reading ]
David — That is, apparently a promise relating to Christ, for David's line had failed long since, had it not been continued in Christ, whose kingdom is and shall be an everlasting kingdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
A man — That is, a ministry to abide in the church to the end of the world, nor is it unusual for God in the Old Testament to express promises to be fulfilled under the gospel by expressions proper to the Old Testament.... [ Continue Reading ]
My covenant — The same with the ordinances mentioned, Jeremiah 31:35. God's law established in the course of natural causes, by virtue of which the day and night, orderly succeed one another. The succession of the gospel ministry in the church of God to abide for ever, shall be as certain as the suc... [ Continue Reading ]
Of David — Christ is himself called David, whose seed and whose Levites are multiplied in the multiplying of Christians and of faithful ministers under the gospel, which are the things here promised.... [ Continue Reading ]
The two families — The families of David and Aaron. Despised — Spoken scornfully of my people, as if they should never be a nation more, having rulers of themselves, and a ministry.... [ Continue Reading ]