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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Jeremiah 31 This chapter is connected with the former, respects the same times, and is full of prophecies and promises of spiritual blessings; of the coming of Christ; of the multiplication of his people, and the increase of their joy; of the conversion of the Gentiles; of the covenant of grace; and of the stability of the saints. It begins with the principal promise of the...
John Gill
Surely after that I was turned I repented,.... Ephraim's prayer was answered; as he prayed he might be turned, he was; and when he was turned, then he repented, not only of sin in general, but of such sins as he had been particularly guilty of; not only of the grosser actions of life, but of inward sins, secret lusts and corruptions; even of sins of holy things, having now different sentiments,...
Matthew Henry
This chapter goes on with the good words and comfortable words which we had in the chapter before, for the encouragement of the captives, assuring them that God would in due time restore them or their children to their own land, and make them a great and happy nation again, especially by sending them the Messiah, in whose kingdom and grace many of these promises were to have their full...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Surety after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, 1 smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Are there any here recollecting the past with terror, and lamenting before God because of their sins? Then hear what God says. He seems to echo the voice of Ephraim. As Ephraim bemoans himself, God bemoans him:-
Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; Repentance is a turning from sin unto the Lord.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: In very grief of heart, as if I could not smite myself enough for having sinned. Jer_31:19. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Now when a man talks like that, how does God speak?
Charles H. Spurgeon
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 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. Hear what the Lord says about these bemoaning ones, these...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely 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. ‘When a man has “sown his wild oats,” and God in mercy helps him to come back from such a dreadful field as that, he recollects what he has been, and he is ashamed of himself; sometimes, he is more than half ashamed to...