Yeremia 30:3-4
Konteks30:3 For I, the Lord, affirm 1 that the time will come when I will reverse the plight 2 of my people, Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors 3 and they will take possession of it once again.’” 4
30:4 So here is what the Lord has to say about Israel and Judah. 5
Yeremia 31:27
Konteks31:27 “Indeed, a time is coming,” 6 says the Lord, 7 “when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah. 8
Yeremia 31:31
Konteks31:31 “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, 9 “when I will make a new covenant 10 with the people of Israel and Judah. 11
Yeremia 3:18
Konteks3:18 At that time 12 the nation of Judah and the nation of Israel will be reunited. 13 Together they will come back from a land in the north to the land that I gave to your ancestors as a permanent possession. ” 14
[30:3] 1 tn Heb “Oracle of the
[30:3] 2 tn Heb “restore the fortune.” For the translation and meaning of this idiom see the note at 29:14.
[30:3] 4 sn As the nations of Israel and Judah were united in their sin and suffered the same fate – that of exile and dispersion – (cf. Jer 3:8; 5:11; 11:10, 17) so they will ultimately be regathered from the nations and rejoined under one king, a descendant of David, and regain possession of their ancestral lands. The prophets of both the eighth and seventh century looked forward to this ideal (see, e.g., Hos 1:11 (2:2 HT); Isa 11:11-13; Jer 23:5-6; 30:3; 33:7; Ezek 37:15-22). This has already been anticipated in Jer 3:18.
[30:4] 5 tn Heb “And these are the words/things that the
[31:27] 6 tn Heb “Behold days are coming!” The particle “Behold” is probably used here to emphasize the reality of a fact. See the translator’s note on 1:6.
[31:27] sn This same expression is found in the introduction to the Book of Consolation (Jer 30:1-3) and in the introduction to the promise of a new covenant (or covenant; 31:31). In all three passages it is emphasized that the conditions apply to both Israel and Judah. The
[31:27] 7 tn Heb “Oracle of the
[31:27] 8 tn Heb “Behold, the days are coming and [= when] I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of people and of animals.” For the significance of the metaphor see the study note.
[31:27] sn The metaphor used here presupposes that drawn in Hos 2:23 (2:25 HT) which is in turn based on the wordplay with Jezreel (meaning “God sows”) in Hos 2:22. The figure is that of plant seed in the ground which produces a crop; here what are sown are the “seeds of people and animals.” For a similar picture of the repopulating of Israel and Judah see Ezek 36:10-11. The promise here reverses the scene of devastation that Jeremiah had depicted apocalyptically and hyperbolically in Jer 4:23-29 as judgment for Judah’s sins.
[31:31] 9 tn Heb “Oracle of the
[31:31] 10 tn Or “a renewed covenant” (also in vv. 22-23).
[31:31] 11 tn Heb “the house of Israel and the house of Judah.”
[3:18] 12 tn Heb “In those days.”
[3:18] 13 tn Heb “the house of Judah will walk together with the house of Israel.”
[3:18] 14 tn Heb “the land that I gave your [fore]fathers as an inheritance.”