UYeremiya 2:31

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

31 Sizukulwanandini, likhangeleni ilizwi likaYehova. Bendiyintlango na kuSirayeli? Bendililizwe lesithokothoko na? Kungathuba lini na ukuba bathi abantu bam, Siyaphaphatheka, asizi kuwe?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

see ye: Amos 1:1, Micah 6:9

Have I been: Jeremiah 2:5, Jeremiah 2:6, 2 Samuel 12:7-9, 2 Chronicles 31:10, Nehemiah 9:21-25, Hosea 2:7, Hosea 2:8, Malachi 3:9-11

We are lords: Heb. We have dominion, Deuteronomy 8:12-14, Deuteronomy 31:20, Deuteronomy 32:15, Psalms 10:4, Psalms 12:4, Proverbs 30:9, Hosea 13:6, 1 Corinthians 4:8, Revelation 3:15-17

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:6 - General Deuteronomy 6:11 - when thou Deuteronomy 8:14 - thine heart Judges 2:2 - why have 1 Kings 11:22 - But 2 Chronicles 12:1 - he forsook Nehemiah 9:16 - dealt Psalms 103:2 - forget not Isaiah 1:4 - gone away backward Isaiah 5:4 - General Isaiah 43:22 - thou hast been Isaiah 48:6 - hast heard Jeremiah 2:13 - For my Jeremiah 5:7 - I had fed Jeremiah 22:21 - I spake Ezekiel 14:5 - estranged Hosea 2:3 - as Amos 2:11 - Is it Micah 6:3 - what Malachi 1:2 - Wherein Matthew 25:24 - I knew Luke 15:13 - and took Luke 18:24 - How 1 Timothy 6:17 - that they Hebrews 11:6 - he that 2 Peter 2:10 - despise Revelation 3:17 - have need

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O generation, see ye the word of the Lord,.... Take notice of it, consider it; or, hear it, as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions. Jarchi and Kimchi think i the pot of manna was brought out, and shown them, to be looked at by them, for the conviction of them, and confirmation of what follows:

have I been a wilderness unto Israel? no: the Israelites were plentifully supplied by him when in the wilderness, and since they were brought into a land flowing with milk and honey; so that they stood in need of nothing; they had a constant supply of all good things:

or a land of darkness? of misery, distress, and poverty; where no light of joy, comfort, and prosperity, is; a land that never sees the light, or enjoys the benefit of the sun, and so is barren and unfruitful; "a land of thorns", as the Septuagint version; or, "a desert and uncultivated land", as the Targum, and Syriac and Arabic versions. It may be rendered, "a land of the darkness of God" k; that is, of the greatest darkness, of thick and gross darkness, alluding to that in Egypt; as the flame of God, and mountains of God, Song of Solomon 8:6, as Ben Melech and Kimchi observe:

wherefore say my people, we are lords; and can reign without thee; or we have kings and princes, and have no need of thee, so Kimchi; but the word used seems to have another meaning, and to require another sense. The Targum is, "we are removed"; and the Vulgate Latin version, "we have gone back"; to which agrees the Jewish Midrash l, mentioned by Jarchi, and confirmed with a passage out of the Misna m, "we are separated from thee"; we have departed from thee, turned our backs on thee, have forsaken thee, and left thy ways and worship; and to do so was very ungrateful, when the Lord had so richly supplied them, that they had not lacked any good thing; and this sense agrees with what follows:

we will come no more unto thee? some render it, "we have determined" n; as having the same sense with the Arabic word, which signifies to "will" or determine anything; and then the meaning is, we are determined, we are resolved to come no more to thee, to attend thy worship and service any more; and so the Targum,

"we will not return any more to thy worship.''

i So Mechilta apud Yalkut in loc. k ארץ מאפליה "terra caliginis Dei", Gataker, Gussetius; "caliginis Jah", Montanus. l Midrash R. Tanchuma, apud Jarchi in loc. Vid. Yalkut Simeoni, in Ioc. m Misn. Trumot, c. 10. sect. 3. Machshirin, c. 3. sect. 3. n רדנו "voluimus non veniemus", &c, De Dieu "decrevimus non veniemus", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, “O generation” that ye are! An exclamation Of indignation at their hardened resistance to God.

A land of darkness - This word is written in Hebrew with two accents, as being a compound, signifying not merely darkness, but the darkness of Yahweh, i. e., very great darkness.

We are lords - Others render it: We rove about, wander about at our will, go where we like.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 2:31. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? — Have I ever withheld from you any of the blessings necessary for your support?

A land of darkness — Have you, since you passed through the wilderness, and came out of the darkness of Egypt, ever been brought into similar circumstances? You have had food and all the necessaries of life for your bodies; and my ordinances and word to enlighten and cheer your souls. I have neither been a wilderness nor a land of darkness to you.

We are lords — We wish to be our own masters; we will neither brook religious nor civil restraint; we will regard no laws, human or Divine. It was this disposition that caused them to fall in so fully with the whole system of idolatry.