Jeremiah 31:18

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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 say,
‘I have sinned and perverted what is right,
And it is not proper for me.

For He looked down from His holy height;

From heaven the Lord gazed upon the earth,

For thus says the high and exalted One
Who

lives forever, whose name is Holy,

“I dwell on a high and holy place,
And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit
In order to revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite.

I will go away and return to My place
Until they

acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;

In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.

“Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

So he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and

embraced him and kissed him.

Ephraim

“For there will be a day when watchmen
On the hills of Ephraim call out,
‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
To the Lord our God.’”

A voice is heard on the bare heights,
The weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel;
Because they have perverted their way,
They have forgotten the Lord their God.

“In those days and at that time,” declares the Lord, “the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the Lord their God they will seek.

How can I give you up, O Ephraim?

How can I surrender you, O Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart is turned over within Me,

All My compassions are kindled.

I will heal their apostasy,
I will love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from them.

Thou hast

“In vain I have struck your sons;
They accepted no chastening.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.

O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth?
You have smitten them,
But they did not weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent.

“Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves,
So do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

“Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Lord,
And whom You teach out of Your law;

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteous,
And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord

Or loathe His reproof,

Where will you be stricken again,
As you continue in your rebellion?
The whole head is sick
And the whole heart is faint.

Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

“Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him;
I hid My face and was angry,
And he went on turning away, in the way of his heart.

Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

She heeded no voice,
She accepted no instruction.
She did not trust in the Lord,
She did not draw near to her God.

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor

faint when you are reproved by Him;

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.

As a

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.

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

A man who hardens his neck after much reproof
Will suddenly be broken beyond remedy.

Your sons have fainted,
They lie helpless at the head of every street,
Like an antelope in a net,
Full of the wrath of the Lord,
The rebuke of your God.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.

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

Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh,
But I will come over her fair neck with a yoke;
I will harness Ephraim,
Judah will plow, Jacob will harrow for himself.

General references

“For has anyone said to God,
‘I have borne chastisement;
I will not offend anymore;

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble;
He saved them out of their distresses.

“If you consent and obey,
You will eat the best of the land;

But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.