Jeremiah 31:23 - Forerunner Commentary

Jeremiah 31:23

21 “Set up signposts,
Make landmarks;
^aSet your heart toward the highway,
The way in which you went.
¹Turn back, O virgin of Israel,
Turn back to these your cities.

22 How long will you ^agad about,
O you ^bbacksliding daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth—
A woman shall encompass a man.”

Future Prosperity of Judah

23 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: ^a‘The Lord bless you, O home of justice, and ^bmountain of holiness!’

24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and ^ain all its cities together, farmers and those going out with flocks.

25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

26 After this I awoke and looked around, and my sleep was ^asweet to me.

27 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that ^aI will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.

28 And it shall come to pass, that as I have ^awatched over them ^bto pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them ^cto build and to plant, says the Lord.

29 ^aIn those days they shall say no more:
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

30 ^aBut every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

A New Covenant

31 “Behold, the ^adays are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—

32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that ^aI took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke,¹ though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.

33 ^aBut this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: ^bI will put My law in their minds, and write it on their¹ hearts; ^cand I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for ^athey all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For ^bI will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

35 Thus says the Lord,
^aWho gives the sun for a light by day,
The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,
Who disturbs ^bthe sea,
And its waves roar
^c(The Lord of hosts is His name):

36 “If ^athose ordinances depart
From before Me, says the Lord,
Then the seed of Israel shall also cease
From being a nation before Me forever.”

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Definitions of words in Jeremiah 31:23:

A {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Again {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Bless {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Bless {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Bring {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Captivity {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Captivity {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Home {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

In {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Israel {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Israel {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Israel {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Justice {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Justice {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Land {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Speech {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

God {Easton's Bible Dictionary}

Judah {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Judah {Hitchcock's Bible Names}

Lord {Easton's Bible Dictionary}

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