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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 31:20

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. beloved. Bowels] the supposed seat of the emotions.

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See also Jeremiah 31:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to the section. These striking _vv_. may be confidently considered as stamped with Jeremiah's personality....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    31:20 troubled (a-32) Lit. 'sound.' see Isaiah 16:11 ; Isaiah 63:15 ; 'yearned,' Song of Solomon 5:4 ....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ בֵן֩ יַקִּ֨יר לִ֜י אֶפְרַ֗יִם אִ֚ם יֶ֣לֶד

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [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,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _I spoke. Hebrew, "my word is in him," and he is docile to my instructions._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    __ 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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SORROW TURNED INTO JOY...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SOUND: are troubled...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 31:20 Ephraim H669 dear H3357 son H1121 pleasant H8191 child H3206 though H1767 spoke H1696 (H8763) ear

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:1 This chapter includes the most famous passage in Jeremiah 1:1, the promise of a new covenant (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 3:26; Deuteronomy 32:36; Genesis 43:30; Hosea 11:8; Hosea 11:9

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For since — From the time I spake against him by my threatenings, I remember him with the affection and compassion of a father....

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