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 looketh on men, and saith, 'I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

For He hath looked From the high place of His sanctuary. Jehovah from heaven unto earth looked attentively,

For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: 'In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'

'Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

'And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

Ephraim

For there is a day, Cried have watchmen on mount Ephraim, 'Rise, and we go up to Zion, unto Jehovah our God;

A voice on high places is heard -- weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.

In those days, and at that time, An affirmation of Jehovah, Come in do sons of Israel, They and sons of Judah together, Going on and weeping they go, And Jehovah their God they seek.

How do I give thee up, O Ephraim? Do I deliver thee up, O Israel? How do I make thee as Admah? Do I set thee as Zeboim? Turned in Me is My heart, kindled together have been My repentings.

I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.

Thou hast

In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.

Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.

O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,

Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick.

And the people hath not turned back unto Him who is smiting it, And Jehovah of Hosts they have not sought.

For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding -- and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart.

And I am as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.

She hath not hearkened to the voice, She hath not accepted instruction, In Jehovah she hath not trusted, Unto her God she hath not drawn near.

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

'As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

As a

Be ye not as a horse -- as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.

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

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

Thy sons have been wrapped up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox in a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.

It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.

Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.

And Ephraim is a trained heifer -- loving to thresh, And I -- I have passed over on the goodness of its neck, I cause one to ride Ephraim, Plough doth Judah, harrow for him doth Jacob.

General references

For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them.

If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,