Jeremia 31:28

Lutherbibel

Und gleichwie ich über sie gewacht habe, auszureuten, zu zerreißen, abzubrechen, zu verderben und zu plagen: also will ich über sie wachen, zu bauen und zu pflanzen, spricht der HERR.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
und es soll geschehen, wie ich über sie gewacht habe, sie auszurotten und zu zerstören, sie niederzureißen und zu verderben und ihnen übelzutun, so will ich über sie wachen, um aufzubauen und zu pflanzen, spricht der Herr .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that like: Jeremiah 44:27, Daniel 9:14

to pluck: Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 18:7-9, Jeremiah 45:4

so: Jeremiah 24:6, Jeremiah 32:41, Psalms 69:35, Psalms 102:16, Psalms 147:2, Ecclesiastes 3:2, Ecclesiastes 3:3, Daniel 9:25, Amos 9:11, Acts 15:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:17 - breed Deuteronomy 28:63 - plucked from 2 Chronicles 7:20 - I pluck 2 Chronicles 30:9 - so that they shall Jeremiah 12:17 - pluck Jeremiah 18:9 - to build Jeremiah 32:42 - Like Jeremiah 33:7 - and will Jeremiah 42:10 - then Ezekiel 19:12 - she was Ezekiel 36:10 - I will Ezekiel 36:38 - the waste Amos 3:5 - General Zechariah 8:14 - As

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them,.... In providence; looked upon them with an eye of vindictive justice; observed all their actions and motions; diligently attended to everything that passed, and took the first and most fitting opportunity:

to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; which words, as they have an elegance and an agreeableness in their sound, in the original; so they are expressive of the utter overthrow of the city, temple, and nation of the Jews, and of the several troubles and calamities they should be afflicted with:

so will I watch over them; be as careful and diligent, as intent, earnest, and early:

to build, and to plant, saith the Lord; to build their city and temple, and to plant them in their own land. So the church of God is his building, whose foundation he lays, the superstructure of which he rears up, and will complete it in his own time; and it is his plantation, into which he puts his pleasant plants, his plants of renown; which he waters with his Spirit and grace, by the ministry of the word, that they may grow, and become fruitful.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet shows that the happiness of Israel and Judah, united in one prosperous nation, will rest upon the consciousness that their chastisement has been the result of sins which they have themselves committed, and that God’s covenant depends not upon external sanctions, but upon a renewed heart.

Jeremiah 31:27

So rapid shall be the increase that it shall seem as if children and young cattle sprang up out of the ground.

Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 31:30

A sour grape - Better, sour grapes. The idea that Jeremiah and Ezekiel (marginal reference) modified the terms of the second Commandment arises from a mistaken exegesis of their words. Compare Jeremiah 32:18; Deuteronomy 24:16. The obdurate Jews made it a reproach to the divine justice that the nation was to be sorely visited for Manasseh’s sin. But this was only because generation after generation had, instead of repenting, repeated the sins of that evil time, and even in a worse form. justice must at length have its course. The acknowledgment that each man died for his own iniquity was a sign of their return to a more just and right state of feeling.

Jeremiah 31:31

A time is foretold which shall be to the nation as marked an epoch as was the Exodus. God at Sinai made a covenant with His people, of which the sanctions were material, or (where spiritual) materially understood. Necessarily therefore the Mosaic Church was temporary, but the sanctions of Jeremiah’s Church are spiritual - written in the heart - and therefore it must take the place of the former covenant Hebrews 8:13, and must last forever. The prophecy was fulfilled when those Jews who accepted Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, expanded the Jewish into the Christian Church.

Jeremiah 31:32

Although ... - i. e., although as their husband (or, “lord” (Baal, compare Hosea 2:16)) I had lawful authority over them. The translation in Hebrews 8:9 agrees with the Septuagint here, but the balance of authority is in favor of the King James Version.

Jeremiah 31:33

The old law could be broken Jeremiah 31:32; to remedy this God gives, not a new law, but a new power to the old law. It used to be a mere code of morals, external to man, and obeyed as a duty. In Christianity, it becomes an inner force, shaping man’s character from within.

Jeremiah 31:34

I will forgive their iniquity - The foundation of the new covenant is the free forgiveness of sins (compare Matthew 1:21). It is the sense of this full unmerited love which so affects the heart as to make obedience henceforward an inner necessity.