Jeremia 3:12

Lutherbibel

Gehe hin und rufe diese Worte gegen die Mitternacht und sprich: Kehre wieder, du abtrünnige Israel, spricht der HERR, so will ich mein Antlitz nicht gegen euch verstellen. Denn ich bin barmherzig, spricht der HERR, und ich will nicht ewiglich zürnen.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Gehe hin, predige diese Worte gegen den Norden hin und sprich: Kehre wieder, du Abtrünnige, Israel! - spricht der Herr , ich will mein Angesicht nicht vor euch verdüstern; denn ich bin gnädig - spricht der Herr - und zürne nicht ewig!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

toward the north: Jeremiah 3:18, Jeremiah 23:8, Jeremiah 31:8, 2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 17:6, 2 Kings 17:23, 2 Kings 18:1

Return: Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:7, Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 4:1, Isaiah 44:22, Ezekiel 33:11, Hosea 6:1, Hosea 14:1-3

and I will not: Jeremiah 30:11, Jeremiah 33:26, Ezekiel 39:25, Hosea 11:8, Hosea 11:9

for I am: Jeremiah 31:20, Deuteronomy 4:29-31, 2 Chronicles 30:9, Psalms 86:5, Psalms 86:15, Psalms 103:8, Psalms 103:17, Psalms 145:8, Micah 7:18-20, Romans 5:20, Romans 5:21

I will: Jeremiah 3:5, Psalms 79:5

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:19 - make 2 Chronicles 6:24 - shall return 2 Chronicles 6:37 - We have sinned Ezra 10:2 - yet now there is hope Proverbs 28:13 - whoso Song of Solomon 6:13 - return Isaiah 1:19 - General Isaiah 17:7 - General Isaiah 55:7 - for Isaiah 64:9 - remember Jeremiah 11:6 - Proclaim Jeremiah 19:2 - and proclaim Jeremiah 29:11 - thoughts Jeremiah 31:22 - backsliding Ezekiel 11:17 - General Hosea 2:14 - and speak Hosea 3:1 - according Zechariah 1:3 - Turn Zechariah 1:4 - Turn Malachi 3:7 - Return unto me Romans 2:4 - goodness

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Go and proclaim these words towards the north,.... With his face thitherwards, towards Babylon, which lay north of Judea, and was the metropolis of Assyria, where the ten tribes were carried captive; and though they were dispersed in the cities of Media and Persia, which lay eastward, yet Babylon being the head of the empire, respect is had to that; not that the prophet was to go thither to them, or to prophesy in the land of the north, as the Targum paraphrases the words: for the word "go", as Jarchi observes, is only expressive of a command on the part of God; and of readiness, as Kimchi says, on the part of the prophet to obey, but not of local motion; he was to read these words, as the latter of these suggests, in Jerusalem, before the elders of Judah, with a respect to Israel, as if they were before him; and the design of this was to show that the Lord was gracious and merciful, and ready to receive backsliders; and to stimulate Judah to repentance, and to turn unto the Lord:

and say, return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord not return from the land of their captivity, though that they shall return in the last day Kimchi thinks is here intimated; and Jarchi says some of them did return, in the eighteenth year of Josiah; but return from their idols to the living God: and for their encouragement it is added,

and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you; or, "my face" d; by frowning upon them, expressing displicency with them, and anger towards them; the meaning is, that he would not continue his resentments, or cause his anger to fall upon them any more, or at least not for ever, as Kimchi interprets it; he had caused his anger to fall upon them like a mighty storm of rain, by carrying them captive; but now he intimates, should they repent and return, he would remove his anger from them, and not cause it to return any more:

for I am merciful, saith the Lord; so he proclaimed himself before Moses, Exodus 34:6 and of this they had had often instances and proofs:

and I will not keep anger for ever; or, "thy sins", as the Targum; I will not mark and observe them, or reserve them for punishment, but will mercifully forgive them; Exodus 34:6- :.

d לא אפיל פני "non faciam cadere facies meas super vos", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The north - The ten tribes, settled by Salmanezer in the north of Assyria.

I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you - literally, I will not cause my face “to fall upon you:” i. e., “I will not receive you with averted looks.” The “and” before this clause should be omitted, as also before the next clause, “I will not keep ...”

I will not keep - All God’s promises and threats are conditional upon man’s conduct.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 3:12. Proclaim these words toward the north — The countries where the ten tribes were then in captivity, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Media, c., see 2 Kings 17:6 these lay north of Judea. How tender and compassionate are the exhortations in this and the following verses! Could these people believe that God had sent the prophet and yet prefer the land of their bondage to the blessings of freedom in their own country, and the approbation of their God?