Jeremiah 31:18

Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

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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 the future, says the Lord; and your children will come back to the land which is theirs.

19Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.

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Cross References

Job 33:27He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

Psalms 32:9Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

Psalms 80:3\80:2\Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.

Psalms 80:19\80:18\So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.

Psalms 94:12Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

Psalms 119:75I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on 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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