Jeremia 31:18

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Ich habe wohl gehört, wie Ephraim klagt: "Du hast mich gezüchtigt, und ich bin auch gezüchtigt wie ein ungebändigtes Kalb; bekehre mich du, so werde ich bekehrt; denn du, HERR, bist mein Gott.

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Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Ich habe wohl gehört, wie Ephraim klagt: Du hast mich gezüchtigt, und ich bin gezüchtigt worden wie ein ungezähmtes Rind! Bringe du mich zurück, so kehre ich zurück; denn du, Herr , bist mein Gott!

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surely: Job 33:27, Job 33:28, Psalms 102:19, Psalms 102:20, Isaiah 57:15-18, Hosea 5:15, Hosea 6:1, Hosea 6:2, Luke 15:20

Ephraim: Jeremiah 31:6, Jeremiah 31:9, Jeremiah 3:21, Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 50:4, Jeremiah 50:5, Hosea 11:8, Hosea 11:9, Hosea 14:4-8

Thou hast: Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 5:3, Job 5:17, Psalms 39:8, Psalms 39:9, Psalms 94:12, Psalms 119:75, Proverbs 3:11, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 9:13, Isaiah 57:17, Hosea 5:12, Hosea 5:13, Zephaniah 3:2, Hebrews 12:5, Revelation 3:19

as a: Psalms 32:9, Proverbs 26:3, Proverbs 29:1, Isaiah 51:20, Isaiah 53:7, Lamentations 3:27-30, Hosea 10:11

turn: Jeremiah 17:14, Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 80:19, Psalms 85:4, Lamentations 5:21, Malachi 4:6, Luke 1:17, Acts 3:26, Philippians 2:13, James 1:16-18

for: Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 3:25, Isaiah 63:16

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:40 - confess Deuteronomy 21:3 - an Deuteronomy 21:18 - will not 1 Kings 8:47 - done perversely 1 Kings 18:37 - thou hast turned 2 Chronicles 6:37 - We have sinned 2 Chronicles 33:12 - And when Job 34:31 - General Job 40:5 - but I will proceed Psalms 7:1 - O Psalms 7:12 - If Psalms 32:3 - When Psalms 51:13 - converted Psalms 107:13 - General Psalms 119:59 - turned Psalms 119:67 - but now Psalms 119:176 - seek Proverbs 23:35 - stricken Song of Solomon 6:12 - soul Isaiah 1:19 - General Isaiah 12:1 - though Isaiah 30:18 - wait Isaiah 31:6 - Turn Isaiah 42:3 - bruised Isaiah 57:18 - have Isaiah 64:5 - in those Jeremiah 3:4 - Wilt thou Jeremiah 3:13 - acknowledge Ezekiel 7:16 - mourning Ezekiel 14:6 - Repent Ezekiel 16:61 - remember Ezekiel 18:28 - he considereth Ezekiel 20:43 - and ye shall Ezekiel 24:13 - because Ezekiel 33:11 - turn ye Ezekiel 36:31 - shall ye Daniel 9:13 - that we Hosea 2:7 - I will Hosea 14:3 - Asshur Hosea 14:8 - I have Jonah 3:10 - God saw Habakkuk 1:12 - for Zechariah 1:3 - and Zechariah 12:12 - the land Matthew 5:3 - the poor Mark 4:12 - be converted Mark 14:72 - Peter Luke 6:21 - ye that weep Luke 7:38 - weeping Luke 15:15 - he went Luke 18:13 - but Luke 22:61 - looked Luke 22:62 - and wept Acts 3:19 - be Acts 9:11 - for Acts 11:18 - granted 1 Corinthians 11:31 - General 2 Corinthians 7:7 - mourning 2 Corinthians 7:9 - I rejoice 2 Corinthians 7:11 - indignation 2 Thessalonians 3:14 - that he 2 Timothy 2:25 - if James 4:9 - afflicted

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus],.... Not Ephraim in person; though, as he was a very affectionate and tenderhearted man, as appears from 1 Chronicles 7:22; he is with like propriety introduced, as Rachel before; but Ephraim intends Israel, or the ten tribes, and even all the people of the Jews; and the prophecy seems to respect the conversion of them in the latter day, when they shall be in soul trouble, and bemoan their sins, and their sinful and wretched estate, and especially their rejection of the Messiah; when they shall look on him whom they have pierced, and mourn, and be in bitterness, as one that mourns for his firstborn, and which the Lord will take notice of and observe, Zechariah 12:10; and it may be applied to the case of every sensible sinner bemoaning their sinful nature; want of righteousness; impotence to all that is spiritually good; their violations of the righteous law of God; and the curse they are liable to on account of it; their many sins against a God of love, grace, and mercy; and their ruined and undone state and condition by sin; all which the Lord takes notice of: "hearing I have heard" s; which denotes the certainty of it, and with what attention he hears, yea, with what pleasure; it is the moan of his doves, of those who are like doves of the valley, everyone mourning for his iniquity; he hears, so as he answers; and sympathizing with them, he sends comfort to them, and delivers them out of their troubles:

thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised; this is the case bemoaned; not so much the chastising hand of God, as unaffectedness with it, and not being the better for it; the Lord has indeed, as if Ephraim should say, chastised me, and I have been chastised by him, and that is all; it has made no manner of impression upon me; I have not received correction, nor has it been of any use to me; and this he bemoaned: and this will be the case of the Jews when they are converted; they will then reflect upon all the corrections and chastisements of God under which they have been ever since the rejection of the Messiah, and still are; and yet are now stupid under them, and take no notice of them, and are never the better for them; and this they will lament when their eyes are opened: and so it is with particular persons at conversion; in their state of unregeneracy they have been chastened and corrected by the Lord, by one providence or another, by one disease and disorder or another, and they have not observed it; it has not wrought upon them, nor awakened them to a sense of danger; God has spoken once, and twice, in this rough way, and they have not perceived; he has stricken them, and they have not grieved; beaten them, and they felt it not; but now being made sensible, they bemoan their former stupidity and inattention, and wonder at the forbearance and goodness of God:

as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]; or to draw the plough; as senseless and as stupid, yea, as thoughtless of danger, as that creature is when led to the slaughter; as "untaught", as the word t signifies; as ignorant of divine and spiritual things; knowing nothing of Christ, or God in Christ, or of the way of salvation by him, and of the operations of his Spirit and grace; as unruly as that to bear the yoke of the law, or the yoke of Christ; and as impatient under the yoke of affliction, kicking, tossing, and flinging, like a wild bull in a net; all which give concern to an awakened mind, that now sees its need of conversion, and prays for it, as follows:

turn thou me, and I shall be turned; which designs not a mere reformation of manners, or conversion to a doctrine or doctrines; nor a restoration after backslidings; nor a carrying on of the work of grace on the soul, and a daily renewing it; but the first work of conversion; which lies in a man's being turned from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God; is a turn of the heart, and not of the head and action only; of the will, affections, and bias of the mind; it is a turning of persons to the Lord Jesus Christ, to look to him for righteousness, life, and salvation; and in such sense will the Jews be turned in the latter day, 2 Corinthians 3:16; and this being prayed for, not only shows a sense of need of it, but of inability to work it; that it is not in the power of man to do it; that he is not active, but passive in it; that it is the Lord's work, and his only; and that when he does it, it is done effectually:

for thou [art] the Lord my God: the "Lord", the mighty Jehovah, and therefore able to do it; "my God", covenant God, who has promised to do it; and by virtue of covenant grace will be the conversion of the Jews; and to which the conversion of everyone is owing, Romans 11:25; or, "for thou [shalt be] the Lord my God"; I will own, acknowledge, fear, serve, and glorify thee as such, being converted to thee; see

Genesis 28:20.

s שמוע שמעתי "audiendo audivi", Vatablus, Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt. t לא למד "non instructus", Munster; "non doctus", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The religious character of the restoration of the ten tribes. Chastisement brought repentance, and with it forgiveness; therefore God decrees their restoration.

Jeremiah 31:15

Ramah, mentioned because of its nearness to Jerusalem, from which it was distant about five miles. As the mother of three tribes, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, Rachel is regarded as the mother of the whole ten. This passage is quoted by Matthew (marginal reference) as a type. In Jeremiah it is a poetical figure representing in a dramatic form the miserable condition of the kingdom of Ephraim devastated by the sword of the Assyrians.

Jeremiah 31:16

Rachel’s work had been that of bearing and bringing up children, and by their death she was deprived of the joy for which she had labored: but by their being restored to her she will receive her wages.

Jeremiah 31:17

In thine end - i. e., for thy time to come (see the Jeremiah 29:11 note).

Jeremiah 31:18

As a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke - literally, like an untaught calf. Compare the Hosea 10:11 note. Ephraim, like an untrained steer, had resisted Yahweh’s will.

Jeremiah 31:19

After that I was turned - i. e., after I had turned away from Thee. In Jeremiah 31:18 it has the sense of turning to God.

Instructed - Brought to my senses by suffering. The smiting upon the thigh is a sign of sorrow. Compare Ezekiel 21:17.

The reproach of my youth - i. e., the shame brought upon me by sins of my youth.

Jeremiah 31:20

Moved to compassion by Ephraim’s lamentation, Yahweh shows Himself as tender and ready to forgive as parents are their spoiled (rather, darling) child.

For ... him - Or, “that so often as I speak concerning him,” i. e., his punishment.

My bowels are troubled - The metaphor expresses the most tender internal emotion.

Jeremiah 31:21

Waymarks - See 2 Kings 23:17 note.

High heaps - Or, signposts, pillars to point out the way.

Set thine heart - Not set thy affection, but turn thy thoughts and attention (in Hebrew the heart is the seat of the intellect) to the highway, even the way by which thou wentest.

Jeremiah 31:22

Israel instead of setting itself to return hesitates, and goes here and there in a restless mood. To encourage it God gives the sign following.

A woman shall compass a man - i. e., the female shall protect the strong man; the weaker nature that needs help will surround the stronger with loving and fostering care. This expresses a new relation of Israel to the Lord, a new covenant, which the Lord will make with His people (Jeremiah 31:31 following). The fathers saw in these words a prophecy of the miraculous conception of our Lord by the Virgin.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 31:18. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself — The exiled Israelites are in a state of deep repentance.

Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised — I was at first like an unbroken and untoward steer, the more I was chastised the more I rebelled; but now I have benefited by thy correction.

Turn thou me — I am now willing to take thy yoke upon me, but I have no power. I can only will and pray. Take the matter into thy own hand, and fully convert my soul.