Jeremiah 31:1--34:22
time <06256> [same.]
God <0430> [will.]
clans ... Israel <04940 03478> [of.]
people <05971> [The people.]
find <04672> [found.]
journey <01980> [when.]
far-off <07350> [of old. Heb. from afar. I have.]
everlasting <05769> [an.]
[with loving-kindness have I drawn. or, have I extended loving-kindness unto.]
rebuild .............. built up <01129> [build.]
dear children <01330> [O.]
rebuild .............. built up ...... take up <01129 05710> [again.]
tambourine <08596> [tabrets. or, timbrels.]
plant .......... plant ...... enjoy <05193> [yet.]
hills <02022> [mountains.]
enjoy <02490> [eat. Heb. profane.]
when <03117> [a day.]
mountains <02022> [upon.]
<06965> [Arise.]
Sing <07442> [Sing.]
Lord .......................... Lord <03068> [O.]
remain alive <07611> [remnant.]
bring <0935> [I.]
distant parts <03411> [the coasts.]
Blind <05787> [them the.]
come back <0935> [come.]
praying prayers <08469> [supplications. or, favours. I will.]
smooth <03477> [in a.]
father <01> [for I.]
Ephraim <0669> [Ephraim.]
Proclaim <05046> [declare.]
scattered <02219> [He.]
watch <08104> [and keep.]
rescue <06299> [redeemed.]
overpowered <02389> [stronger.]
come <0935> [Therefore.]
Mount <04791> [the height.]
radiant <05102> [and shall.]
grain <01715> [wheat.]
<05315> [and their.]
grow faint or weary <01669> [and they.]
young women <01330> [shall.]
turn <02015> [for.]
provide <07301> [satiate.]
people <05971> [my people.]
sound <06963> [A.]
Ramah <07414> [Ramah.]
[Rama.]
her <03985> [refused.]
[because.]
Stop <04513> [Refrain.]
heartfelt <06468> [for.]
return <07725> [they.]
heard <08085> [surely.]
Israel <0669> [Ephraim.]
disciplined <03256> [Thou hast.]
calf <05695> [as a.]
come back <07725> [turn.]
Lord <03068> [for.]
after ......... After <0310> [Surely after.]
beat <05606> [I smote.]
ashamed <0954> [I was ashamed.]
<05375> [I did.]
people of Israel <0669> [Is Ephraim.]
even though ................... pity ........ compassion <01767 07355> [for.]
deeply <04578> [my bowels.]
moved <01993> [are troubled. Heb. sound.]
pity ........ compassion <07355> [I will.]
keep in mind <05324> [Set thee.]
took .......... your minds <07896 03820> [set thine.]
Return ....... Return <07725> [turn.]
dear children <01330> [O.]
vacillate <02559> [How.]
unfaithful <07728> [backsliding.]
bring <01254> [created.]
woman <05347> [A woman.]
[nqbh tcwbb gbr <\\See definition 05347\\>,] literally "A female ('one who is only a woman, not a wife, namely a virgin,' says Cocceius) shall encompass a man," or a male child: comp. Job 3:3. Which, together with the addition of a new creation, may well be understood to denote the miraculous conception. Hence the Jews have applied it determinately to the Messiah. In Berashith Rabba, (Parash 89) it is said, that as God punished Israel in a virgin, so would he also heal; and in Midrash Tillim, on Ps. 2, R. Huna, in the name of R. Idi, speaking of the sufferings of the Messiah, says, that when his hour is come, God shall say, "I must create him with a new creation; and so he saith, This day I have begotten thee."
says ...................... say <0559> [As.]
Lord ................................... Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
dwells <05116> [O.]
mountain <02022> [and mountain.]
time <03117> [the days.]
<02232> [that I.]
saw ..................... see <08245> [that like.]
uprooted <05428> [to pluck.]
saw ..................... see <08245> [so.]
time <03117> [the days.]
make <03772> [I.]
people of <01004> [with.]
covenant .................. covenant <01285> [Not.]
when <03117> [in the.]
covenant .................. covenant <01285> [which.]
husband <01166> [although I was. or, should I have continued?]
covenant <01285> [But this shall be the.]
God <0430> [and will.]
teach <03925> [teach.]
know ................ know ..... Lord <03045 03068> [Know the.]
know ................ know <03045> [for they.]
forgive <05545> [for I.]
promises <05414> [which giveth.]
stirs <07280> [which divideth.]
waves <01530> [when.]
Lord ............................................................ Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
fixed ordering <02706> [those.]
cease <07673> [cease.]
heavens <08064> [If.]
reject <03988> [I.]
time <03117> [the days.]
city <05892> [that.]
Tower <04026> [the tower.]
Gate <08179> [the gate.]
valley <06010> [the whole.]
Valley <05158> [the brook.]
[Cedron.]
Valley ...... far north ................. Lord <05158 06438 03068> [unto.]
sacred <06944> [shall be.]
torn down <05428> [it shall.]
tenth <06224> [A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. in the.]
eighteenth <08083> [the eighteenth.]
king ..................... royal <04428> [then.]
The siege had commenced on the tenth month of the preceding year, and continued a year after, ending in the fifth month of the following year; consequently the siege must have lasted eighteen months and twenty-seven days. See 2 Ki 25:18.
Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
king .............. courtyard ........ royal <02691 04428> [in the.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
prophesying <05012> [Wherefore.]
hand <05414> [Behold.]
dealt <06485> [until.]
fight <03898> [though.]
Hanamel <02601> [Behold.]
Anathoth <06068> [Anathoth.]
entitled <04941> [for.]
courtyard <02691> [court.]
Anathoth <06068> [Anathoth.]
recognized <03045> [Then I.]
said .............................................................. spoken <01697> [that this.]
That it was by His appointment that I was to make this purchase; the whole of which was designed as a symbolical act, to shew the people, that although Judah and Jerusalem should be desolated, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon, yet there should be a restoration, when lands and possessions should be again enjoyed by their legal owners, in the same manner as formerly. During the famine that prevailed in the city, Hanameel probably wanted money to purchase bread, and his field would not be thought of much value in such circumstances, which may account for the stipulated sum being so very small; for at 2s. 6d. the shekel, it would only amount to about 2Å“. 2s. 6d.
weighed out <08254> [weighed.]
seven ounces ... silver <08255 03701 07651> [seventeen shekels of silver. or, seven shekels, and ten pieces of silver.]
signed <03789> [I.]
signed ... deed <05612 03789> [subscribed the evidence. Heb. wrote in the book.]
sealed <02856> [and sealed.]
purchase <05749> [and took.]
order of transfer <04687> [according.]
Baruch <01263> [Baruch.]
Neriah <05374> [Neriah.]
presence <05869> [and in.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
Houses <01004> [Houses.]
prayed <06419> [I Prayed.]
Oh <0162> [Ah.]
make <06213> [thou.]
<01697> [there.]
[to hard for thee. or, hid from thee.]
show <06213> [shewest.]
punish <07999> [recompensest.]
great <01419> [the Great.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
great <01419> [Great.]
deeds <05950> [work. Heb. doing.]
see <05869> [for.]
reward <05414> [to give.]
did <07760> [hast set.]
<06213> [and hast.]
brought ..... out <03318> [brought.]
great <02389> [with a strong.]
oath <07650> [which.]
kept ... promise .............. land <0776> [a land.]
took possession <03423> [possessed.]
obey <08085> [but.]
do ........ do <06213> [they have.]
disaster <07451> [therefore.]
ramps <05550> [mounts. or, engines of shot.]
The mounts were huge terraces raised up to plant their engines on; and so formed as to be capable of being moved forwards towards the city. See Note on 2 Sa 20:15.
city .............. make ... city <05892 05414> [the city is.]
<06440> [because.]
threatened <01696> [what.]
said <0559> [thou.]
city ............................ silver <03701 05892> [for. or, though.]
God <0430> [God.]
<01697> [is.]
hand <05414> [Behold.]
set <03341> [and set.]
rooftops <01406> [upon.]
people <01121> [children.]
earliest history <05271> [from.]
city <05892> [this city.]
anger <0639> [a provocation of mine anger. Heb. for my anger. that I.]
do so .......... made .......... kings ................... have done <06213 04428> [they.]
turned <06437> [turned.]
turning <06203> [back. Heb. neck. rising.]
built <01129> [they built.]
Valley .......................... commanded <01516 06680> [which.]
Ben ......... sons ................................... Judah <01121 03063> [to cause.]
saying <0559> [now.]
make <05414> [It.]
regather <06908> [I will gather.]
"This promise," says Jerome, "taken in its full extent was not made good to those that returned from captivity; because they were frequently infested with wars, as well by the kings of Syria and Egypt as by the rest of their neighbours; and they were finally subdued and destroyed by the Romans." God's word cannot fail; therefore there remaineth yet a rest for the ancient people of God.
live <03427> [I will cause.]
give <05414> [I.]
single-minded ....... way <01870 0259> [one way.]
respect <03372> [they may.]
[for every. Heb. all days. for the.]
make <03772> [I will make.]
<07725> [that I.]
stop <0310> [from them. Heb. from after them. but I.]
delight <07797> [Yea, I.]
plant <05193> [and I.]
faithfully <0571> [assuredly. Heb. in truth, or stability.]
bring ............................. bringing <0935> [Like.]
bring ............................. bringing <0935> [so.]
bought <07069> [buy.]
territory <0776> [in the land.]
restore <07622> [for I.]
As an earnest of these promises, houses and lands shall again take a good price in Judah and Jerusalem; and though they now are almost valueless, there shall again be a sufficiency of purchasers. Trade shall revive, for they shall have money enough to buy land with; husbandry shall revive, for those that have money, shall covet to lay it out upon lands; laws shall again have their due course, for they shall subscribe evidences, and seal them.
spoke <01697> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. Moreover.]
This was the eleventh year 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 might consult him with the greater ease.
confined <06113> [he.]
do <06213> [the maker.]
Osah, rather, "the Doer of it:" that is, He who is to perform that which He is now about to promise; thus rendered by Dahler; {Voici ce qui dit l'Eternel, qui fait ce qu'il a dit.} "Thus saith the Eternal, who doeth that which he hath said."
Lord ....... Lord .............. Lord <03068> [the Lord. or, Jehovah.]
Call <07121> [Call.]
show <05046> [shew.]
mysterious <01219> [mighty. Heb. hidden.]
torn down <05422> [thrown.]
go out <0935> [come.]
turn my back on <05641> [I have hid.]
will <05927> [I will bring.]
heal the wounds <0724> [health.]
{Aruchah;} not a plaister, as some, or progress, as others; but health, or the healing or closing of a wound, as the cognate Arabic {areekat} signifies, from {araka,} to heal.
show <01540> [and will.]
<07622> [will cause.]
rebuild <01129> [and will.]
fame <08034> [a name.]
nations <01471> [before.]
awe <06342> [fear.]
say ....... saying <0559> [which ye.]
sounds ... joy ... gladness ..... celebrations <08342 06963> [voice of joy.]
sounds ..... gladness ..... celebrations ...................... say <06963 0559> [the voice of them.]
Give thanks .... Lord ........ Lord ............. Lord <03034 03068> [Praise the.]
thank offerings <08426> [sacrifice.]
restore <07725> [For I.]
people ... animals <0120 0929> [without.]
towns <05892> [in all.]
sheep <06629> [shall.]
descendant <06780> [the Branch.]
do <06213> [and he.]
Judah <03063> [shall Judah.]
live <07931> [shall dwell.]
<03072> [The Lord our righteousness. JEHOVAH-tsidkenu.]
David ... never lack <01732 03808 03772> [David shall never want. Heb. There shall not be cut off from]
David.
covenant <01285> [may.]
descendant <01121> [that he.]
From the destruction of Jerusalem to the present time, a period of nearly eighteen hundred years, the Jews have had neither a king nor any form of government whatever; nor has the office of high priest, or priest of any kind offering sacrifice, been exercised among them during the same period. Hence this must be understood of the spiritual David, Jesus Christ, both the king and High Priest of his church, "the Israel of God," (Ga 6:16,) in whom the covenant of royalty with David and his seed, and that of priesthood with Aaron and his seed, have received their full accomplishment; and all the sacrifices of that dispensation were superseded by his "one oblation of himself," the efficacy of which remains for ever.
Levites <03881> [and with.]
stars in the sky <06635> [the host.]
numerous <07235> [so.]
Levites <03881> [the Levites.]
two <08147> [The two.]
surely noticed ....... haven't .............. Israel ... Judah ...... they have little regard ...... ever <05006> [thus.]
covenant <01285> [If my.]
governing <07760> [and if.]
reject .......... refuse <03988> [will I.]
choose ..................... restore <03947 07622> [I will.]
mercy <07355> [and have.]
spoke <01697> [A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. The word.]
This chapter contains two discourses, one concerning the taking of the city, and Zedekiah's captivity and death, ver. 1-7; and the other containing an invective against the inhabitants of Jerusalem for retaining their Hebrew slaves, ver. 8-22; both of which were delivered in the tenth year of Zedekiah.
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [when.]
kingdoms <04467> [all the kingdoms.]
consisted ......... from <03027> [of his dominion. Heb. the dominion of his hand.]
go <01980> [Go.]
give ..................... hand <05414> [Behold.]
escape ................................ go <04422 0935> [And thou.]
confront <05869> [and thine.]
answer <06310 01696> [he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth. Heb. his mouth shall speak to thy mouth.]
die <04191> [But thou.]
burn <04955> [and with.]
<08313> [so.]
mourn <05594> [and they.]
attacking Jerusalem <03898 03389> [fought against.]
Lachish <03923> [Lachish.]
fortified <04013> [for.]
made <03772> [had.]
grant <07121> [to proclaim.]
Hebrew <05680> [Hebrew.]
keep ..... enslaved <05647> [serve.]
leaders <08269> [when.]
agreed ....................... complied <08085> [then.]
made <03772> [I made.]
when <03117> [in the.]
Every <07093> [At the.]
sold <04376> [been sold. or, sold himself.]
ancestors <01> [but.]
It appears from this and several other passages, that the sabbatical year had been wholly neglected some centuries before the captivity; and the author of the second book of Chronicles (ch. 36:21) assigns this as a reason for the captivity, "that the land might enjoy her sabbaths." Now, if we reckon the seventy years' captivity as a punishment for this neglect, it will follow that the law on this subject had been disregarded for about 490 years.
Recently .......................... made <03117 03772> [ye.]
Recently <03117> [now. Heb. to-day. in proclaiming.]
made <03772> [ye had.]
granted ........................ claimed .... own <07121 08034> [which is called by my name. Heb. whereupon my name is called.]
turned right around ............. took back <07725> [ye turned.]
did not honor <02490> [polluted.]
forced <03533> [and brought.]
freedom <07121> [behold.]
When they proclaimed liberty to their slaves, God restrained the sword from cutting them off; but now having resumed their authority over them, He proclaimed liberty to these dire judgments to seize upon, and destroy them.
die ... war ... by <02719> [to the sword.]
make <05414> [I will.]
<02189> [to be removed. Heb. for a removing.]
violated .................. passed <05674> [have transgressed.]
cut <03772> [when.]
This was the ancient mode of making a covenant. (See on De 29:12 Jos 9:7.)
leaders <08269> [princes.]
court officials <05631> [the eunuchs.]
hand <03027> [and into.]
dead bodies <05038> [and their.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
withdrawn <05927> [which are.]
order <06680> [I will command.]
back <07725> [cause.]
They did return, and reinvested the city; and, after an obstinate defence, took it, plundered it, and burnt it to the ground, taking Zedekiah, his princes, and people, captive.
fight <03898> [shall fight.]
make <05414> [and I will.]
