Jeremiah 3:21-25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 3:25

We lie down ... - Or, We will lie down: we are ready to throw ourselves upon the ground in bitter humiliation.Covereth - literally, shall cover us. We will hide our face from others. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:20-21

Jeremiah 3:20-21. Surely, as a wife treacherously departeth, &c. This may be rendered, As a woman is not faithful to her husband, or, her friend, as the Hebrew רעה signifies. Here God returns to the carnal Israelites; so that the Jewish doctors seem to be right in calling the spirit of prophecy an abrupt spirit. So have you dealt treacherously with me God, by thus reminding the Israelites of what they had formerly been, endeavours to bring them to repentance and new obedience for... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:22

Jeremiah 3:22. Here begins a dialogue between God and his people, wherein he offers gracious terms of pardon to them, and they make sincere professions of obedience to him. Return, ye backsliding Or revolted, children Return to me, and to my worship and service; return to your duty. God is introduced as saying this upon hearing the weeping and supplications of the Israelites, acknowledging their sin, and humbling themselves for it. And I will heal your backslidings Your revolts, or ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:23

Jeremiah 3:23. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills From idols worshipped on hills and mountains. It is a continuation of that form of confession begun Jeremiah 3:22, drawn up with a reference to the present state of the idolatrous Israelites; wherein they express their abhorrence of those idols which they worshipped upon the hills and mountains, and declare their firm resolution of adhering to, and depending upon, the Lord their God. There being nothing in the original of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:24-25

Jeremiah 3:24-25. For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers That is, the fruit of their labour, יגיע , which properly signifies labour and toil, being here put by a metonymy for the substance acquired by toil; that is, their labours have been followed by disappointment and shame; they have not reaped the expected fruit of them. Or sin, which causes shame, especially the sin of idolatry, has brought all our calamities upon us, the loss of our goods and substance, the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:19-25

Repentance means genuine change (3:19-4:4)God wanted the relationship between him and his people to be like that between a father and a son, or between a husband and a wife. But his people have been rebellious and unfaithful (19-20). In hope, the prophet pictures the people turning from their false worship at Baal’s high places and crying out to God for forgiveness. In response God promises that if they truly repent, he will forgive them and heal them (21-22a).The people then turn to God and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 3:21

the high places = the places where they had sinned. Compare Jeremiah 3:2 . for = because. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 3:22

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos , to mark the confession that will be made "in those days". read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 3:23

Truly = Thus continuing her confession. in vain, &c. = as certainly as the hills [have proved] false, and the noisy throng on the mountains fan empty sound], so truly is the salvation of Israel with our God. The "hills" and "mountains" are put by the Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), for the idolatry practiced on them. Compare Ezekiel 18:6 , Ezekiel 18:11 , Ezekiel 18:15 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 3:24

shame = the shameful thing, "shame" being put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), for the Asherah which put them to shame (Jeremiah 3:25 ). See App-42 . labour. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for all that had been produced by labour. their sons. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and their", thus completing the Figure of speech Polysyndeton, to emphasize the completeness of the Restoration. read more

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