Jeremiah 33:1-8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 33:1-9

Observe here, I. The date of this comfortable prophecy which God entrusted Jeremiah with. It is not exact in the time, only that it was after that in the foregoing chapter, when things were still growing worse and worse; it was the second time. God speaketh once, yea, twice, for the encouragement of his people. We are not only so disobedient that we have need of precept upon precept to bring us to our duty, but so distrustful that we have need of promise upon promise to bring us to our... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 33:1

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time ,.... Not that this was precisely the second time that the word of the Lord came to the prophet, for it had come to him many more times than those; but this was the second time on the same occasion and subject; for the subject of this chapter is the same with that of the former, concerning the Messiah, and the happiness of the church in his times: (while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison) : though the prophet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 33:2

Thus saith the Lord, the Maker thereof ,.... The Syriac version is, "that made thee"; the prophet. The Septuagint and Arabic versions are, "the Maker of the earth"; see Jeremiah 32:17 . Kimchi interprets it of Jerusalem; rather it is to be understood of the New Jerusalem, or church of God in Gospel times. Jarchi seems to understand it of this prophecy or promise, and so others; the promise of restoring and rebuilding Jerusalem; which, if taken of the church of God, may be admitted; the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 33:3

Call unto me, and I will answer thee ,.... This is spoken not to Jerusalem, and the inhabitants of it; but to the prophet, encouraging him to seek the Lord by prayer, promising an answer to him. So the Targum, "pray before me, and I will receive thy prayer:' and show thee great and mighty things ; or, "fortified ones" F16 בצרות "munita", Vatablus, Paganinus, Montanus; "fortia", Tigurine version. ; which are like fortified cities, that cannot easily be come at, unless the gates... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 33:4

For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel ,.... The destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, which was now fulfilling, is here mentioned as a pledge of the accomplishment of spiritual blessings after spoken of; and to assure the prophet, that as he would with his own eyes see the fulfilment of the prophecies he had delivered out in the name of the Lord concerning that, so likewise as certainly would the other be brought to pass: concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 33:5

They come to fight with the Chaldeans ,.... Either the Jews out of the country, or their auxiliaries, their neighbours, to oblige them to break up the siege; but all to no purpose: or rather the Jews within; who, from the mounts erected, fight with the Chaldeans; or by sallying out upon them: but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men ; the mounts, made of their houses, or their houses themselves; it is only to make them graves, and fill them with these carcasses: whom I... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 33:6

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them ,.... That is, the church of God, the members of it, typified by Jerusalem; and it is to be understood of the healing of their spiritual maladies, the diseases of sin, through the blood of the Messiah, who should arise with healing in his wings; that is, with remission of sin, which is often meant by healing in Scripture: Christ is the physician; his blood the balm in Gilead, which being applied to those that are diseased with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 33:7

And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return ,.... Mention being made of the return of the captivity of Israel, or the ten tribes, as well as that of Judah, shows that this prophecy does not relate to the return of the Jews from their seventy years' captivity in Babylon; but is to be understood spiritually, of a release of the mystical and spiritual Israel of God from the captivity of sin, Satan, and the law, by the Messiah: and will build them as at the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 33:8

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me ,.... Even by the blood of Christ, which cleanses from all sin, of heart, lip, and life, in allusion to the purifications under the law, 1 John 1:7 ; see Ezekiel 36:25 ; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me ; for Christ's sake, and through his stoning sacrifice, and upon the foot of full satisfaction made by him. A heap of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 33:1

Moreover the word of the Lord - This was in the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah, Jeremiah being still shut up in prison: but he was now in the court of the prison, where the elders and the king's officers, etc., might consult him with the greater ease; for they continued to inquire, foolishly thinking, that if he would but prophesy good things, that these must come, or that he had sufficient power with God to induce him to alter his mind, - destroy the Chaldeans, and deliver the city. read more

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