Jeremiah 31:20-22
1599 Geneva Bible
20 Is Ephraim [a]my dear son or pleasant child? yet since I spake unto him, I still [b]remembered him: therefore my bowels are troubled for him. I will surely have compassion upon him, saith the Lord.
21 Set thee up [c]signs: make thee heaps: set thine heart toward the path and way, that thou hast walked: turn again, O virgin of Israel: turn again to these thy cities.
22 How long wilt thou go astray, O thou rebellious daughter? for the Lord hath created [d]a new thing in the earth: A WOMAN shall compass a man.
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- Jeremiah 31:20 As though he would say: No, for by his iniquity he did what lay in him to cast me off.
- Jeremiah 31:20 To wit, in pity him for my promise’s sake.
- Jeremiah 31:21 Mark by what way thou didst go into captivity, and thou shalt turn again by the same.
- Jeremiah 31:22 Because their deliverance from Babylon, was a figure of their deliverance from sin, he showeth how this should be procured, to wit, by Jesus Christ, whom a woman should conceive and bear in her womb. Which is a strange thing in earth, because he should be born of a virgin without man, or he meaneth that Jerusalem, which was like a barren woman in her captivity, should be fruitful as she, that is joined in marriage, and whom God blesseth with children.
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