That the travellers should themselves be bidden to set up signposts has caused needless trouble to some commentators. Israel is bidden to mark out the way for his return, perhaps by pioneers sent in advance.
guide-posts The Heb. word occurs here only.
set thine heart The heart in Heb. denotes the seat of the intellect. Hence the sense is, turn thy attentionto the way by which thou wentest into exile, that thou mayest retrace thy steps.
Verse Jeremiah 31:21. _SET THEE UP WAYMARKS_] Alluding to stones, or _heaps of_ _stones_, which travellers in the desert set up to ascertain the way, that they may know how to return. Mark the way to...
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...
SET THEE UP. Erect. MAKE THEE. set up. HIGH HEAPS: i.e. finger posts....
SET THEE UP WAY-MARKS— The prophet bids them to think of preparing for their return to their own country; and, in order to that end, to set up landmarks to direct travellers in the right path. Instead...
C. A New Creation Jeremiah 31:21-22 TRANSLATION (21) Erect for yourself road marks, set up guideposts! Set your heart toward the highway, the way you have walked! Return, O Virgin of Israel, return...
Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. SET THEE UP WAY-MARK...
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....
HIGH HEAPS] RV 'guide-posts' for the returning exiles....
SET THEE UP WAY MARKS... — It will be noted that the figure is changed, and that instead of “Ephraim, the dear son,” we have Israel, the “back-sliding daughter.” The idea of the return of the exiles i...
הַצִּ֧יבִי לָ֣ךְ צִיֻּנִ֗ים שִׂ֤מִי לָךְ֙ תַּמְרוּרִ֔ים...
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...
Set thee up (c) waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thy heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. (c) Mark by what...
_Tower, to bewail thy past follies; or signals to know the way, or tombs for thy beloved._...
I do not presume to decide upon this passage, but I venture to propose my views of it to the Reader. I do not object to the comment of those who suppose the return of the people from Babylon might be...
He describes what mercy would do, even that God would at length restore the captives and bring them back from exile to their own country. There was however mention made previously of his favor, that w...
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...
SET THEE UP WAY MARKS, MAKE THEE HIGH HEAPS,.... Of stones, raised up as pillars, or like pyramids; or upright, as palm trees, which signification the word z has; to be marks and signs, to know the wa...
_Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities._ Ver. 21. _Set th...
_Set thee up way-marks_ “These words are a call to Israel to prepare for their return. The word צינים, rendered _way-marks_, means _stone pillars_, and תמרודים, translated _heaps_, from המר, _a palm-t...
SORROW TURNED INTO JOY...
Set thee up way-marks, finger-posts directing him back to his Father's home; MAKE THEE HIGH HEAPS, wooden posts or pillars of stone showing the way; SET THINE HEART TOWARD THE HIGHWAY, EVEN THE WAY WH...
21-26 The way from the bondage of sin to the liberty of God's children, is a high-way. It is plain, it is safe; yet none are likely to walk in it, unless they set their hearts towards it. They are en...
The latter part of this verse expounds the former. Thou shalt (saith God) return again to these cities which thou now leavest, therefore take good notice of the way thou seest, set up some marks by wh...
Jeremiah 31:21 up H5324 (H8685) signposts H6725 Make H7760 (H8798) landmarks H8564 Set H7896 (H8798) heart...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:21 Israel should mark the way they WENT out (to exile), for they will RETURN on the same road....
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 Chronicles 29:3; 2 Chronicles 11:16; 2 Chronicles 20:3; Deuteronomy 32:46;...
Set up — Thou shalt return to these cities which thou now leavest, therefore take good notice of the way, set up marks by which thou mayest know it again, make thee pillars or some high heaps of stone...