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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 31:21

Verse 21 He describes what mercy would do, even that God would at length restore the captives and bring them back from exile to their own country. There was however mention made previously of his favor, that we may know that the people were restored for no other reason but because God had mercy on them. The Prophet then having pointed out the fountain of redemption, passes on now to the external effect, by which God proved that he was reconciled to his people. Hence he says, set up for thee... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 31:22

Verse 22 As the Prophet had promised a return to the people, he now reproves especially the Israelites, who looked here and there, and never could acquiesce in the word of God alone: for it is a common thing with almost all the unbelieving, that they torment themselves, and, as it were, designedly contrive for themselves many inquietudes. Since then the Israelites were looking forward to what might happen, and could not entertain any hope as to their return, except when some appearance of hope... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:15-17

Rachel weeping for her children. I. RACHEL HAS NATURAL CAUSE NOR HER GRIEF . Sword, pestilence, and famine ravage the land. The invasion by Nebuchadnezzar desolates the old home of the family of Rachel, bringing death to those who cling to it and scattering the survivors in exile. Such a calamity was in itself most mournful; but the disappointment it brought to the cherished hopes of Israel in a golden future deepened the distress to despair. It looked as though it were the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:15-17

Rahel weeping for her children The great mother of Israel and Judah is represented by a figure as mourning over the desolation of the land. God comforts the sorrow thus occasioned by a promise greater than could be fulfilled in the return of the Babylonian captivity. Rahel was an ancestress of the Old Testament Church whose spirit she might be said to personify The Church of Christ may still be said to weep for her children, and to be comforted by the promises of God. Matthew's reference... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:15-17

Strong consolation. In this touching passage let us note— I. THE SCENE . The exiles, with bowed heads and many tears, are being hurried away from their beloved land. Fierce soldiery urge them on. The smoking ruins of their towns, cities, homes, and, above all, of the greatly beloved city of God, Jerusalem, are behind them. A wail of distress goes up from these broken-hearted captives as they stand on the frontier Mils of their land, and have to say farewell to it forever. The whole... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:15-17

Sorrowing mothers and their consolation. I. THE GRIEFS OF BEREAVED MOTHERS . There is an innumerable company of women who have seen the children die in whom they themselves had given birth, and Rachel is their great representative. She stands before us here as the mother of a nation; for surely it only spoils a grand poetical idea to attach her to some tribes rather than others. She sees the nation which sprang from her husband Jacob going from the land of promise into captivity,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:15-22

From this glorious prospect Jeremiah's eye turns to the melancholy present. The land of Ephraim is orphaned and desolate. The prophet seems to hear Rachel weeping for her banished children, and comforts her with the assurance that they shall yet be restored. For Ephraim has come to repentance, and longs for reconciliation with his God, and God, who has overheard his soliloquy, relents, and comes to meet him with gracious promises. Then another voice is heard summoning Ephraim to prepare for... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:16

Rachel is admonished to cease from weeping, because her work has not really been in vain; her children shall be restored. Thy work shall be rewarded. Like the Servant of the Lord, Rachel had said (though with the voiceless language of tears), "I have laboured in vain; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain;" and like the ocean mother of Zidon, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth children, neither nourished up young men, nor brought up virgins" ( Isaiah 23:4 ). Rachel's work... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:17

Hope in thine end; rather, hope for thy future (comp. on Jeremiah 29:11 ). There is no occasion to render, with the Septuagint and Rosenmuller, "for thy posterity" (comp. Psalms 119:13 , Hebrew); for Rachel identifies herself by sympathy with her descendants. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:18

As a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; literally, as an untaught calf (comp. Hosea 10:11 ). Turn thou me, etc. Jeremiah has a peculiarly deep view of conversion. Isaiah ( Isaiah 1:16-20 ) simply calls upon his hearers to change their course of life; Jeremiah represents penitent Ephraim as beseeching God so to prepare him that he may indeed "turn." read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 31:21

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 31:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:15-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:15-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:15-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:15-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:15-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 31:18

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