jeremiah-31:18,-jeremiah-31:20

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jeremiah 31:1-40

Religion in the Family Jeremiah 31:1 What constitutes a godly home? The acknowledgment of God in all things. Making His will the governing principle. There can be no godly household where that is not done. I. Where the will of God is placed first there will be order an inestimable blessing in a home. God is not the God of confusion in the home or the Church. A man or woman who truly walks with God will soon become ashamed of disorder and slovenliness. And where God is the God of the family,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:1-40

CHAPTER XXXIVRESTORATION VREVIEWJeremiah 30:1-24; Jeremiah 31:1-40; Jeremiah 32:1-44; Jeremiah 33:1-26IN reviewing these chapters we must be careful not to suppose that Jeremiah knew all that would ultimately result from his teaching. When he declared that the conditions of the New Covenant would be written, not in a few parchments, but on every heart, he laid down a principle which involved the most characteristic teaching of the New Testament and the Reformers, and which might seem to justify... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 31:1-40

CHAPTER 31 1. The home-going of the nation (Jeremiah 31:1-9 ) 2. The joy of salvation (Jeremiah 31:10-14 ) 3. The preceding tribulation, sorrow and repentance (Jeremiah 31:15-21 ) 4. Assurance (Jeremiah 31:22-26 ) 5. The new covenant (Jeremiah 31:27-34 ) 6. The everlasting nation (Jeremiah 31:35-40 ) Jeremiah 31:1-9 . Sovereign grace will bring them back and give them the songs of salvation. It is true of Israel “I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 31:18

31:18 I have surely heard {u} Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a {x} bull unaccustomed [to the yoke]: {y} turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.(u) That is, the people who were led captive.(x) Which was wanton and could not be subject to the yoke.(y) He shows how the faithful used to pray, that is, desire God to tame them as they cannot turn of themselves. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:1-40

MORE MESSAGES FOR ZEDEKIAH In some respects the most important chapter here is the first, which deals with Babylon’s supremacy, and reveals the beginning of “the times of the Gentiles,” or “the fulness of the Gentiles” (Romans 11:25 ). The term refers to the period when Israel, because of her disobedience to God, has forfeited her place of power in the earth and is scattered among the nations. It begins when God transfers this power to the Gentiles as represented by Babylon, and continues... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jeremiah 31:18-20

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 Lord's bowels of mercies, yearning over a returning sinner on the occasion. Here is Ephraim falling down at the footstool of the mercy-seat: and the Lord stooping down, as it were, to raise him up. I am a worthless sinner, cries Ephraim; like a beast, stubborn and restive I have been. Thou art a... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:18

I was. Chaldean, Theodoret, and St. Chrysostom have "not." But chastisement produced a salutary effect upon the ten tribes, Osee vi. 1., and xiv. 3. --- Convert. Bring me back from captivity and from my evil ways. This must be attributed to grace. (Calmet) --- We cannot repent without it. (St. Jerome) --- Da quod jubes. (St. Augustine, Confessions x. 19, 31, and 37.) --- God's grace is the principal cause of justification. Man's co-operation is the secondary cause. (Worthington) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 31:18-20

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 himself back when he is revolted. Therefore he prays, Turn thou me, and I shall be turned. His will was bowed to the will of God. When the teaching of God's Spirit went with the corrections of his providence, then the work was done. This is our comfort in affliction, that the Lord thinks upon us. God... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Jeremiah 31:15-26

Sorrow Turned into Joy v. 15. Thus saith the Lord, A voice was heard in Ba-mah, a city some nine or ten miles north of Jerusalem, on the boundary between the former kingdoms of Israel and Judah, lamentation and bitter weeping: Bahel, the beloved wife of Jacob, as the ancestress of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin, weeping for her children, the members of the northern kingdom, refused to be comforted for her children because they were not. This verse is quoted by Matthew 2:18, with reference... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Jeremiah 31:1-26

III. THE SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SALVATION TO THE TWO HALVES OF THE NATION (Jeremiah 31:1-26)α. Ephraim’s Share (Jeremiah 31:1-22)1. The Decree of RestorationJeremiah 31:1-61 At that time, saith Jehovah, I will be God to all the families of Israel,And they shall be my people.2 Thus saith Jehovah; the people left of the sword has found grace in the desert.Up!1 to bring him to rest,2 even Israel.3 Jehovah appeared unto me from afar.And I love thee with everlasting love,Therefore... read more