Jeremiah 33:1

CHAPTER XXXIII

In this chapter the prophet predicts a restoration of Israel

and Judah to the favour of God, attended with such glorious

circumstances as shall astonish all the world, 1-9.

Their prosperity from that period is then described by a

beautiful enumeration of circumstances, 10-13.

Thus leads to the promise of the Messiah, the grand subject of

the prophetical writings, and the happiness and stability which

the children of Israel shall enjoy under his government;

promises which, in so far as they respect the great body of the

Jews, remain still to be fulfilled, 14-26.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXIII

Verse Jeremiah 33:1. Moreover the word of the Lord] This was in the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah, Jeremiah being still shut up in prison: but he was now in the court of the prison, where the elders and the king's officers, c., might consult him with the greater ease for they continued to inquire, foolishly thinking, that if he would but prophesy good things, that these must come, or that he had sufficient power with God to induce him to alter his mind,-destroy the Chaldeans, and deliver the city.