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Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:4-5

Godly sorrow. In these verses we have given us not a few of the characteristics of real repentance—that repentance which never needs to be repented of. Note some of these as seen in Israel and Judah. I. THEY ACTUALLY SET OUT TO SEEK THE LORD . The time of thinking about it and talking of it was over. All indecision on the matter had ceased, and we see them arising and going on this blessed journey. II. TEARS . Had there not been the actual setting out, these tears... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:4-5

Reunited Israel seeking Jehovah. I. THE VOLUNTARINESS OF THIS QUEST . How it is exactly that Israel becomes master of its own choice is not indicated here. Nor need we stop to notice the indications elsewhere. The great thing to note is that Israel, being free to choose, chooses the right thing. Israel might have chosen to stop in Babylon. Thus a great difference is indicated between the circumstances in which the first covenant with Israel was made, and these circumstances of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 50:4

The fall of Babylon is to be immediately followed by the return of the exiles homewards, in tearful procession, because they go as penitents; and yet with joy, because their faces are toward Zion. The cessation moreover of the schism between Israel and Judah is one of the signs of the times of the Messiah Isaiah 11:12-13, and symbolically represents the gathering together of the warring empires of the world under the peaceful scepter of the Church’s King.Going and weeping: they shall go - Omit... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 50:4-5

Jeremiah 50:4-5. In those days Wherein God shall begin to execute judgment on Babylon; the children of Israel shall come, &c. This passage is primarily meant of the return of the Jews from their captivity, upon the destruction of the Babylonish monarchy. Many of the ten tribes, here termed the children of Israel, which had been carried captive into Assyria, hearing that their brethren of the two tribes were permitted and encouraged by Cyrus and his successors to return to their own... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:1-46

A message concerning Babylon (50:1-46)Finally, Jeremiah sees that the nation that God used to punish Judah will itself be punished. Bel, or Merodach (Marduk), the chief god of Babylon, will be powerless to save Babylon when the attack comes (50:1-3).Since the Judeans will by this time have humbly repented before God, the downfall of Babylon will give them the opportunity to return to the land where their ancestors once lived (4-5). (When Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylon in 539 BC, he promptly... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 50:4

In those days. This prophecy awaits its fulfilment. The conquest by Medo-Persia did not exhaust it. children = sons. together. Another proof that this prophecy refers to the future. Never yet fulfilled. going and weeping. Hebrew = weeping as they travel, so shall they journey on. weeping. For their past sins. Compare Jeremiah 31:9 , Jeremiah 31:18 . Joel 2:12 .Zechariah 12:10-14 .Revelation 1:7 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. (with ' eth). App-4 . God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 50:4

Jeremiah 50:4. In those days, and in that time— The return of the ten tribes with that of Judah and Benjamin could not have been marked out more expressly. "They shall return to their country amid tears of joy, of tenderness and compunction." See Calmet. But from the next verse we may conclude, that a future and more general restoration of the Jews is also and particularly referred to. See Luke 9:51; Luke 9:53.Jeremiah 42:17; Jeremiah 42:17; Jeremiah 44:12. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 50:4

4. Fulfilled only in part when some few of the ten tribes of "Israel" joined Judah in a "covenant" with God, at the restoration of Judah to its land (Nehemiah 9:38; Nehemiah 10:29). The full event is yet to come (Jeremiah 31:9; Hosea 1:11; Zechariah 12:10). weeping—with joy at their restoration beyond all hope; and with sorrow at the remembrance of their sins and sufferings (Ezra 3:12; Ezra 3:13; Psalms 126:5; Psalms 126:6). seek . . . Lord— (Psalms 126:6- :). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 50:1-10

1. An overview of Babylon’s future 50:1-10This oracle begins with an overview of what Yahweh would do to Babylon and Israel in the future. Much of the prophecy in this section has not yet been fulfilled. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 50:4

At the time of Babylon’s destruction, the Israelites would leave her-both Israelites and Judahites. They would go out, weeping as they left, and seeking Yahweh their God. This weeping probably anticipates Israel’s national repentance at the second coming of Christ (cf. Zechariah 12:10-14). Judah and Israel did not unite as one nation after the Persians took over, and most of the exiles did not return to the Promised Land."The phrase, In those days (4), is nearly always a pointer to the... read more

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