Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [saying], Thou have chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]. Turn thou me back, and I shall be turned back, for thou are LORD my God.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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 LORD my God.

In Context

17And there is hope for thy latter end, says LORD, and [thy] sons shall come again to their own border.

19Surely after that I was turned back. I repented, and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

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Cross References

Job 33:27He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.

Psalms 32:9Become ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, [else] they will not come near to thee.

Psalms 80:3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Psalms 80:19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chasten, O LORD, and teach out of thy law,

Psalms 119:75I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness thou have afflicted me.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 31:11-18

Restoration of Israel; Promises to Israel. ( b. c. 594.) 10 Hear the word of the Lord , O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord , for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the… Read the whole commentary →

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