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Jeremiah 31:20 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 31 · verse 20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 31:20 · King James Version
Jeremiah 31:20 in context
18I 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.
19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
21Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
22How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- earnestlyzâkarproperly, to markH2142 →
- pleasantshaʻshuaʻenjoymentH8191 →
- troubledhâmâhto make a loud soundH1993 →
- EphraimʼEphrayimEphrajim, a son of JosephH669 →
- bowelsmêʻehused only in plural the intestines, or the abdomen, figuratively, sympathyH4578 →
- childyeledsomething bornH3206 →
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We have here, I. Ephraim's repentance, and return to God. Not only Judah, but Ephraim the ten tribes, shall be restored, and therefore shall thus be prepared and qualified for it, Hos 14:8.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-26