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Jeremiah 31:36 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 31 · verse 36
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.Jeremiah 31:36 · King James Version
Jeremiah 31:36 in context
34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
36If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
37Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
38Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ordinanceschôqan enactmentH2706 →
- departmûwshto withdrawH4185 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- nationgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- saithnᵉʼuman oracleH5002 →
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Glorious things have been spoken in the foregoing verses concerning the gospel church, which that epocha of the Jewish church that was to commence at the return from captivity would at length terminate in, and which all those promises were to have their full accomplishment in.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 35-40