Jeremiah 31:18

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Summary

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

Surely

Ephraim

Hosea 14:4

Thou hast

As a

Hosea 10:11

General references

Bible References

Surely

"He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted [what is] right, and it was not paid back to me.

that he looked down from his holy height. Yahweh looked from heaven over [the] earth

For thus says [the] high and lofty one who resides forever, and [whose] name [is] holy: "I reside [in] a high and holy place, and with [the] {contrite} and humble of spirit, to revive [the] spirit of [the] humble, and to revive [the] heart of [the] {contrite}.

{I will return again} to my place until they acknowledge [their] guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me.

Come, let us return to Yahweh; because [it is] he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us down and will bind us up.

And he set out [and] came to his own father. But [while] he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran {and embraced him} and kissed him.

Ephraim

For there will be a day [when] watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim, 'Stand up, and let us go up [to] Zion, to Yahweh our God.'"

"A voice [is] heard on [the] barren heights, the weeping of the pleas for mercy of the children of Israel, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

In those days and in that time,'" {declares} Yahweh, "the people of Israel will come, they and the people of Judah together. {Weeping as they go}, they will go, and Yahweh their God they will seek.

How can I give you up, Ephraim? [How] can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? [How] can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is disturbed within me; {all} my compassions are aroused.

I will heal their disloyalty; I will love them freely because my anger has turned back from them.

Thou hast

"For {in vain} I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline. Your sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion.

Yahweh, do not your eyes [look] for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain, you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, they have refused to turn back.

"Look, happy [is the] human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

From all my transgressions deliver me; do not make me [the] taunt of [the] fool.

Blessed [is] the man, O Yah, whom you instruct and teach from your law,

I know, O Yahweh, that your judgments [are] right, and [that] in faithfulness you afflicted me.

Do not despise the discipline of Yahweh, my child. Do not be weary of his reproof

Why do you want to be beaten again? You continue [in] rebellion. [The] whole of [the] head [is] sick, and [the] whole of [the] heart [is] faint.

And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.

I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, but he walked apostate, in the ways of his heart.

But I [am] like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.

She listens to no voice; she does not accept correction. In Yahweh she does not trust; to her God she does not draw near.

And have you completely forgotten the exhortation which instructs you as sons? "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, or give up [when you] are corrected by him.

As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. Be zealous, therefore, and repent!

As a

Do not be like a horse [or] like a mule, without understanding; [that needs] his tackle--bridle and rein--for restraint [or he would not] come near you.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.

A man who is reproved, being stubborn of neck-- suddenly he will be broken, and there will not be healing.

Your children have fainted; they lie at [the] head of all [the] streets, like an antelope in a snare, those who are full [of] the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was brought like lamb to [the] slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, so he did not open his mouth.

[It is] good for a man who carries the yoke of his childhood.

Ephraim [was] a trained heifer, that loved to thresh [grain], and I myself {spared} the fairness of her neck; I will make Ephraim break the ground, Judah will plow, Jacob must till for himself.

General references

"Indeed, does anyone say to God, 'I have endured [chastisement]; I will not act corruptly [again];

Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble; he saved them from their distresses.

If you are willing and you are obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.

But if we were evaluating ourselves, we would not be judged.