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

That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

For he will look down from his sanctuary above; from heaven the Lord will look toward earth,

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

"Come on! Let's return to the Lord! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.

Ephraim

Yes, a time is coming when watchmen will call out on the mountains of Ephraim, "Come! Let us go to Zion to worship the Lord our God!"'"

"A noise is heard on the hilltops. It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods. Indeed they have followed sinful ways; they have forgotten to be true to the Lord their God.

"When that time comes," says the Lord, "the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the Lord their God.

How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart! All my tender compassions are aroused!

"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.

Thou hast

"It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion."

Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.

"Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion! Do not make me the object of fools' insults!

How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord, the one whom you teach from your law,

I know, Lord, that your regulations are just. You disciplined me because of your faithful devotion to me.

My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke.

Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak.

The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation with the Lord who commands armies.

I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.

She is disobedient; she refuses correction. She does not trust the Lord; she does not seek the advice of her God.

And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? "My son, do not scorn the Lord's discipline or give up when he corrects you.

All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!

As a

Do not be like an unintelligent horse or mule, which will not obey you unless they are controlled by a bridle and bit.

A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

The one who stiffens his neck after numerous rebukes will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.

Your children faint; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a snare. They are left in a stupor by the Lord's anger, by the battle cry of your God.

He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.

It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

Ephraim was a well-trained heifer who loved to thresh grain; I myself put a fine yokeon her neck. I will harness Ephraim. Let Judah plow! Let Jacob break up the unplowed ground for himself!

General references

"Has anyone said to God, 'I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more.

They cried out to the Lord in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

If you have a willing attitude and obey, then you will again eat the good crops of the land.

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