4/9/2023 0 Comments Bible mythoughts are not![]() ![]() ![]() He charges upon himself, in the first place, that sin which his conscience told him that he was more especially guilty of at this time, and that was impatience under correction: " Thou has chastised me I have been under the rod, and I needed it, I deserved it I was justly chastised, chastised as a bullock, who would never have felt the goad if he had not first rebelled against the yoke." True penitents look upon their afflictions as fatherly chastisements: " Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised that is, it was well that I was chastised, otherwise I should have been undone it did me good, or at least was intended to do me good and yet I have been impatient under it." Or it may intimate his want of feeling under the affliction: " Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised, that was all I was not awakened by it and quickened by it I looked no further than the chastisement. Accusing himself, laying a load upon himself as a sinner, a great sinner. True penitents do thus bemoan themselves. Bemoaning himself and the miseries of his present case. Ephraim is here brought in weeping for sin, perhaps because Ephraim, the person from whom that tribe had its denomination, was a man of a tender spirit, mourned for his children many days ( ), and sorrow for sin is compared to that for an only son. It is likewise thus expressed that it might be the better accommodated to particular penitents, for whose direction and encouragement this passage is intended. Ephraim shall say, What have I do to any more with idols? Ephraim the people, is here spoken of as a single person to denote their unanimity they shall be as one man in their repentance and shall glorify God in it with one mind and one mouth, one and all. ![]() Not only Judah, but Ephraim the ten tribes, shall be restored, and therefore shall thus be prepared and qualified for it. 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto me. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. 24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. 23 Thus saith the L ORD of hosts, the God of Israel As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity The L ORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. ![]() 22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the L ORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. 21 Set 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. 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 L ORD. 19 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. 18 I 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 L ORD my God. Jer 31:20 | MHC | STEP | Ephraim's Repentance and Privilege Encouragements to the Captives. ![]()
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