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 observe to men, and say, I have sinned and perverted righteousness; and it was not equally repaid to me,

For He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from Heaven Jehovah beheld the earth;

For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will seek Me diligently.

Come and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us; He has stricken, and He will bind us up.

And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

Ephraim

For there shall be a day that the watchmen on Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise and let us go up to Zion to Jehovah our God!

A voice was heard on the high places weeping, cryings of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

In those days, and at that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going and weeping. They shall go and seek Jehovah their God.

How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassions are kindled together.

I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for My anger has turned away from him.

Thou hast

In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.

Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the fool.

Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Jehovah, to teach him out of Your Law;

I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are right, and that You have afflicted me in faithfulness.

My son, do not despise the chastening of Jehovah; nor be weary with His correction;

Why should you be stricken any more? You will revolt more and more; the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, nor do they seek Jehovah of Hosts.

For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid Myself, and was angry, and he went on turning away in the way of his heart.

Therefore I am as a moth to Ephraim, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

She did not obey the voice; she did not receive correction. She trusted not in Jehovah; she did not draw near to her God.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; therefore be zealous and repent.

As a

Be not like the horse, or like the mule, who have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.

Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the street like a wild antelope in a net, filled with the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of your God.

He was oppressed, and He was afflicted; yet He opened not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

And Ephraim is like a trained heifer, trying to tread out. But I passed over on the goodness of her neck. I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

General references

For has any said to God, I have taken away; I will not pervert?

Then they cried to Jehovah in their distress, and He saved them out of their troubles.

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

For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.