Jeremia 3:21

Lutherbibel

Darum hört man ein klägliches Heulen und Weinen der Kinder Israel auf den Höhen, dafür daß sie übel getan und des HERRN, ihres Gottes, vergessen haben.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Eine Stimme wird auf den kahlen Höhen vernommen: es ist das flehentliche Weinen der Kinder Israel, weil sie ihren Weg verkehrt und des Herrn , ihres Gottes, vergessen haben.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A voice: Jeremiah 30:15-17, Jeremiah 31:9, Jeremiah 31:18-20, Jeremiah 50:4, Jeremiah 50:5, Isaiah 15:2, Ezekiel 7:16, Zechariah 12:10-14, 2 Corinthians 7:10

for they have: Numbers 22:32, Job 33:27, Proverbs 10:9, Proverbs 19:3, Micah 3:9

and they have: Jeremiah 2:32, Isaiah 17:10, Ezekiel 23:35, Hosea 8:14, Hosea 13:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:18 - forgotten Psalms 9:17 - forget Isaiah 57:11 - and hast Jeremiah 18:15 - my people Jeremiah 22:23 - how Ezekiel 14:22 - ye shall be Ezekiel 22:12 - and hast Zechariah 12:12 - the land

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 the children of Israel; not so much lamenting their calamities, as mourning over their sins, supplicating the pardon of them, and freely and ingenuously confessing them:

for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God; or, "because they have" k, c. this they shall be sensible of, that they have perverted the right ways of the Lord by their traditions, and have forgotten the worship of the Lord, as the Targum paraphrases it yea, the Lord himself, their covenant God and kind benefactor, and lightly esteemed of the true Messiah, the Rock of their salvation. The consideration of which will cause them to weep and mourn; which they will do when the Spirit of grace and supplication is poured out upon them; and they shall look upon him whom they have pierced, Zechariah 12:10. Some interpret this as the cause of their calamities, and not as the subject matter of their mourning; but the latter seems best to agree with what follows, which shows by what means they were brought to repentance, and were converted.

k כי העוו את דרכם "quia perverterunt viam suam", Munster, Montanus, Junius Tremellius "eo quod", Piscator; "quod pravam viam inierunt", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Upon the high places - Upon those bare table-lands, which previously had been the scene of Israel’s idolatries Jeremiah 3:2. The prophet supposes the offer of mercy to Israel if repentant to have been accepted, and describes Israel’s agony of grief now that she is convinced of her sins.

Weeping and supplications - literally, “the weeping of earliest prayers for mercy.”

For they have ... - Rather, because “they hare perverted their way,” literally, made it crooked. It gives the reason of their cry for mercy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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 -