Jeremiah 23:5

the days come The phrase (first occurring in Amos 4:2), according to Jeremiah's employment of it (cp. Jeremiah 23:7; Jeremiah 30:3; Jeremiah 31:27; Jeremiah 31:31; Jeremiah 31:38; Jeremiah 33:14), implies a special call to note the announcement thus introduced. In spite of the troubles which are now gathering round them there are none the less surely days of deliverance coming.

Branch mg. Or, ShootOr, Bud. While the word designating the Messiah in Isaiah 11:1 is rightly translated Branch, the Heb. substantive here (Ṣemach) can only mean shoot, that which springs immediately out of the ground. In Isaiah 4:2 the word is used in a more general sense, not as here of the individual Messianic Ruler, but of the produce of the soil in the blissful age of the Messiah. See further in Dr. p. 364 and on Isaiah 4:2 (Skinner) in C.B.

deal wisely For mg. prospersee on Jeremiah 20:11.

execute judgement and justice Cp. the same expression as used of David, the ancestor of the Messiah, in 2 Samuel 8:15.