Jeremiah 3:19-22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 3:12-19

Here is a great deal of gospel in these verses, both that which was always gospel, God's readiness to pardon sin and to receive and entertain returning repenting sinners, and those blessings which were in a special manner reserved for gospel times, the forming and founding of the gospel church by bringing into it the children of God that were scattered abroad, the superseding of the ceremonial law, and the uniting of Jews and Gentiles, typified by the uniting of Israel and Judah in their... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 3:20-25

Here is, I. The charge God exhibits against Israel for their treacherous departures from him, Jer. 3:20. As an adulterous wife elopes from her husband, so have they gone a whoring from God. They were joined to God by a marriage-covenant, but they broke that covenant, they dealt treacherously with God, who had always dealt kindly and faithfully with them. Treacherous dealing with men like ourselves is bad enough, but to deal treacherously with God is to deal treasonably. II. Their conviction... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:19

But I said ,.... Within himself, in the thoughts of his heart, when he took up a resolution concerning their conversion, open adoption, and return to their own land, as a symbol of the eternal inheritance: how shall I put thee among the children ? among the children of God, who are so by special adopting grace, which is a high and honourable privilege, greater than to be the sons and daughters of the greatest potentate on earth; who as they are high birth, being born of God, so they are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:20

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband ,.... Or, "her friend" F9 מרעה "ab amico suo", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "a socio suo", Cocceius. ; who loves her, takes care of her, and provides for her, and goes after another man, and cohabits with him; which is a violation of the marriage covenant, and acting a base and treacherous part unto him to whom she is married so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord ; who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:21

A voice was heard upon the high places ,.... And so might be heard afar off; it shows that the repentance and confession of the Jews, when convinced and converted, will be very public, and made upon those places where they have committed their sins; see Jeremiah 2:20 , for this and the following verses declare the humiliation, repentance, and conversion of the Jews, and the manner in which they shall be brought to it, and be openly put among the children: weeping and supplications of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:22

Return, ye backsliding children ,.... This is the call of the Jews to repentance in the latter day; See Gill on Jeremiah 3:14 . and I will heal your backslidings ; that is, I will forgive your sins. Sins are the diseases of the soul, and the wounds made in it; and pardoning them is healing them. So the Targum, "I will forgive you when ye return;' see Psalm 103:3 , this is done by the application of the blood of Christ, the only physician, and whose blood is the balm that heals... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:19

How shalt I put thee among the children - As if he had said, How can ye be accounted a holy seed, who are polluted? How can ye be united to the people of God, who walk in the path of sinners? How can ye be taken to heaven, who are unholy within, and unrighteous without? And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father - This is the answer to the above question. They could not be put among the children unless they became legal members of the heavenly family: and they could not become members of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:21

A voice was heard upon the high places - Here the Israelites are represented as assembled together to bewail their idolatry and to implore mercy. While thus engaged, they hear the gracious call of Jehovah: - read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:22

Return, ye backsliding children - This they gladly receive, and with one voice make their confession to him: "Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art Jehovah our God;" and thence to the end of the chapter, show the reasons why they return unto God. Because he is the true God. Because the idols did not profit them: they could give no help in time of trouble. Because it is the prerogative of God alone to give salvation. Because they had no kind of prosperity since they had abandoned... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:19

Verse 19 It is not my purpose to mention all the expositions of this verse; but it is enough to shew what seems to be the meaning of the Prophet. Whenever I touch on opinions which I disapprove, this I feel constrained to do, because when they present the appearance of truth, readers may be deceived by them: but when the truth itself is sufficiently conspicuous, I am not disposed to spend labor in refuting the opinions of others. What, then, the words of the Prophet mean is this, — God here... read more

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