John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:9
They shall come with weeping ,.... For joy, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe; of which there are instances, Genesis 29:11 ; so the Jews will come to Christ, and to the Gospel church, as well as into their own land, with joy that they have found the Messiah, and are brought under his government, and into the enjoyment of the privileges of the Gospel, and the possession of their own land; or with tears of repentance for all their sins, original and actual, especially for their sin of... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:8
Behold, I will bring them from the north country ,.... As from Babylon, at the end of the seventy years' captivity, which lay north of Judea; so, in the latter day, from those northern countries, as ours, where they now are in great numbers: and gather them from the coasts of the earth ; or "sides" of it; from all the parts of the world where they are: and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together ; signifying that no... read more