--- title: "Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 4" author: "John Calvin" translator: "John Owen" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 107 of 123 url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-4/107/ cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 4, section 107. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-4/107/" --- # Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 4 *John Calvin, tr. John Owen* Calvin on Jeremiah and Lamentations, volume 4 of 5. ## 107. Chapter 31 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-4/107/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-4/107/#p-N [¶0] 1 At that time, saith Jehovah, Will I be a God to all the families of Israel; And they shall be my people. [¶1] 2 Thus saith Jehovah, — Found favor in the desert Hath a people who had escaped the sword, By advancing till he gave rest to Israel. [¶2] 3 Of old Jehovah appeared to me: Nay, with perpetual love have I loved thee; Therefore have I prolonged to thee mercy. [¶3] 4 I will yet build thee, And built shalt thou be, virgin of Israel; Thou shalt yet be adorned with thy tabrets, And go forth with the choir of players; [¶4] 5 Thou shalt yet plant vineyards On the mountains of Samaria; Plant shall planters and eat the fruit. [¶5] 6 For the day shall be, when they shall cry, The watchmen, on Mount Ephraim, — “Arise, and let us ascend into Sion, To Jehovah our God.” [¶6] 7 For thus saith Jehovah, — Exult for Jacob with joy, And shout at the head of the nations, Publish, give thanks, and say, “Save, Jehovah, thy people, the remnant of Israel.” [¶7] 8 Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north, And gather them from the ends of the earth; Among them shall be the blind and the lame, The pregnant, and she that travaileth; Together a great company shall they return thither. [¶8] 9 With weeping shall they come, And in mercies will I lead them; I will lead them to streams of water, In a straight way, where they shall not stumble: For I will be to Israel a father, And Ephraim, my first-born is he. [¶9] 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations, And tell it in islands afar off, and say, — “He who scattered Israel will gather him, And will watch him as a shepherd his flock:” [¶10] 11 For redeem Jacob will Jehovah, And free him from the hand of one stronger than himself; [¶11] 12 And come shall they, and shout on the height of Sion; And flow together shall they to the bounty of Jehovah, For corn and wine and oil, And for the young of the flock and the herd; And their soul shall be as a watered garden, And they shall mourn no more. [¶12] 13 Then rejoice shall the virgin in the dance, And the youth and the aged together; And I will turn their mourning to joy, And comfort them and cheer them after their sorrow; [¶13] 14 And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness, And my people with my goodness shall be satiated, saith Jehovah. [¶14] 15 Thus saith Jehovah, — A voice on high is heard, The lamentation of bitter weeping; Rachel, weeping for her children, Refused comfort for her children, because they are not, [¶15] 16 Thus saith Jehovah, Hold thy voice from weeping, And thine eyes from tears; For a reward shall be to thy work, saith Jehovah, And return shall they from the land of the enemy: [¶16] 17 Yea, there will be a hope in the latter end, saith Jehovah; For return shall thy children to their own border. [¶17] 18 Hearing I have heard Ephraim when exiled, — “Thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, Like a bullock not trained; Turn thou me, and I shall be turned, For thou, Jehovah, art my God. [¶18] 19 Verily, after thou hadst turned me, I repented; And after I knew myself, I smote my thigh; I was ashamed and even confounded, Because I bore the reproach of my youth.” [¶19] 20 Is Ephraim a son dear to me — Is he a son delighted in Even from the time I spoke to him? Remembering I will still remember him; Therefore sounded for him have my bowels; Pitying I pitied him, saith Jehovah. [¶20] 21 Set up titles for thee, raise for thee heaps,: Fix my heart on the pathway, On the way thou hast walked; Return, virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities. [¶21] 22 How long wilt thou wander, rebellious daughter! For create does Jehovah a new thing on the earth — A woman shall surround a man. [¶22] 23 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, — They shall again say this word in the land of Judah, And in the cities, when I restore their captivity, — “Bless thee let Jehovah, The habitation of righteousness, the mount of holiness.” [¶23] 24 And dwell in it shall Judah and all his cities, Also husbandmen, and they shall go with the flock: [¶24] 25 For I will water the thirsty soul, And every hungry soul will I fill. [¶25] 26 I then awoke and saw, And my sleep had been sweet to me. [¶26] 27 Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, That I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah, With the seed of man and with the seed of beast: [¶27] 28 And it shall be, that as I have watched over them, To root up and to break down, And to break in pieces and to destroy and to afflict; So will I watch over them, To build and to plant, saith Jehovah. [¶28] 29 In those days they shall no more say, — Our fathers have eaten a sour grape, And the children’s teeth are blunted; [¶29] 30 But every man, in his iniquity shall he die; Every man, eating a sour grape, Blunted shall be his teeth. [¶30] 31 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, That I will make with the house of Israel, And with the house of Judah, a new covenant: [¶31] 32 Not according to the covenant I made With their fathers, in the day I took their hand, To bring them out from the land of Egypt; Because void have they made that covenant, Though I ruled over them, saith Jehovah. [¶32] 33 But this is the covenant which I will make With the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah, — I will put my law in their inward parts, And on their heart will I write it; And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people: [¶33] 34 And teach shall no one any more his neighbor, And no one his brother, saying, — “Know ye Jehovah;” for all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them, saith Jehovah; For I will forgive their sins, And their iniquities will I remember no more. [¶34] 35 Thus saith Jehovah, — He who hath set the sun for light by day, And the courses of the moon and stars for light by night, Who moves the sea and its waves roar, — Jehovah of hosts is his name: [¶35] 36 If removed shall be these ordinances From my presence, saith Jehovah, Then also the seed of Israel shall cease To be a nation before me continually: [¶36] 37 Thus saith Jehovah, — If measured can be the heavens above, Or searched the foundations of the earth below, Then also will I reject the whole seed of Israel For all that they have done, saith Jehovah. [¶37] 38 Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, That built shall be the city of Jehovah From the tower of Hananeel to the corner gate; [¶38] 39 And go forth shall the measuring line from before it, Even to the hill Gareb, and surround Goatha, [¶39] 40 And all the valley of carcasses and ashes, And all the fields to the brook Kedron, Even to the corner gate of the horses eastward: Being holiness to Jehovah, it shall not be cut off, Nor destroyed any more for ever.