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Verse Jeremiah 31:20. Is _EPHRAIM MY DEAR SON?_] It is impossible to
conceive any thing more _tenderly affectionate_ than this. Let us
consider the whole account. The _ten tribes_, called here _Ephrai...
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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...
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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
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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...
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CHILD. a young child. Hebrew. _yalad._
MY BOWELS ARE TROUBLED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ Reference
to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:36). Compare Duke Jeremiah 15:20....
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See introd. summary to the section. These striking _vv_. may be
confidently considered as stamped with Jeremiah's personality....
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God is represented as the speaker. He asks Himself whether Ephraim is
still beloved by Him. The answer is contained in the words that
follow. As often as He makes mention of him, His affection towards...
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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...
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IS EPHRAIM MY DEAR SON? &C.— Some render this passage, _Is not
Ephraim my dear son? Is he not a delightful child? Verily, the oftener
I speak of him, I shall still remember him more and more: therefor...
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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...
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Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake
against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels
are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith th...
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31:20 troubled (a-32) Lit. 'sound.' see Isaiah 16:11 ; Isaiah 63:15 ;
'yearned,' Song of Solomon 5:4 ....
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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....
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God is represented as addressing Himself even as a father might do,
when dwelling upon the ingratitude and rebellion of a son, whom,
nevertheless, he cannot but continue to love.
PLEASANT] i.e. belov...
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IS EPHRAIM MY DEAR SON?_ — _Literally, _a child of delight_ —
_i.e.,_ fondled and caressed.
IS HE A PLEASANT CHILD? — We have to ask whether an affirmative or
negative answer is implied to these quest...
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הֲ בֵן֩ יַקִּ֨יר לִ֜י אֶפְרַ֗יִם אִ֚ם
יֶ֣לֶד
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CHAPTER XXXI
RESTORATION II
THE NEW ISRAEL
Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
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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...
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[Is] Ephraim (a) my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I
spoke against him, I do earnestly (b) remember him still: therefore my
heart is troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him,...
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_I spoke. Hebrew, "my word is in him," and he is docile to my
instructions._...
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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...
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God here complains of the Israelites, because he had produced so
little an effect on them by his great goodness: for the adoption with
which he had favored them was an immense benefit;but by their
ing...
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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...
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[IS] EPHRAIM MY DEAR SON?.... Questions put in this form, in the
Hebrew language, usually more vehemently deny; and then the sense must
be, Ephraim is not my dear son: and agreeably to this all the
fo...
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Jeremiah 31:20 _[Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child?
for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still:
therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have m...
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_Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he_, &c. These questions are designed to
be answered in the affirmative, as appears from the inference,
_therefore my bowels are moved for him._ It seems that, to suit the...
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Is Ephraim My dear son? literally, "a son of My favor. " IS HE A
PLEASANT CHILD? literally, "a child of delights. " The question
implies a decided negative answer if the actual condition of Ephraim's...
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SORROW TURNED INTO JOY...
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SOUND:
are troubled...
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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...
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OLBHeb;
Interpreters run into a very great variety in their explications of
this text; that which seemeth to be the cause of it is, that, amongst
the Hebrews, affirmative interrogations are notes of t...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:1 This chapter includes the most famous
passage in Jeremiah 1:1, the promise of a new covenant (vv....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 3:26; Deuteronomy 32:36; Genesis 43:30; Hosea 11:8; Hosea 11:9
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For since — From the time I spake against him by my threatenings, I
remember him with the affection and compassion of a father....