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Jeremiah
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“At that time,” says the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.” See also: Jeremiah 30:22Zechariah 13:9Isaiah 41:10The LORD says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.” See also: Psalms 95:11Numbers 10:33Matthew 11:28The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness. See also: Psalms 103:17Isaiah 54:8-9Hosea 11:4I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry. See also: Jeremiah 33:7Jeremiah 31:13Amos 5:2Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit. See also: Amos 9:14Leviticus 19:23-25Micah 4:4For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to the LORD our God.’” See also: Jeremiah 50:4-5Isaiah 52:7-8Jeremiah 50:19For the LORD says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’ See also: Psalms 28:9Isaiah 37:31Psalms 14:7Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company. See also: Ezekiel 34:16Jeremiah 23:8Isaiah 42:16They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn. See also: Exodus 4:22Jeremiah 3:4Matthew 5:4“Hear the LORD’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’ See also: Isaiah 40:11Ezekiel 34:12Deuteronomy 30:4For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. See also: Isaiah 48:20Isaiah 44:23Titus 2:14They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of the LORD, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all. See also: Isaiah 35:10Joel 3:18Isaiah 58:11Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. See also: Psalms 30:11Isaiah 61:3Isaiah 51:11I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 31:251 Peter 2:9Jeremiah 33:9The LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.” See also: Matthew 2:16-18Psalms 77:2Jeremiah 40:1The LORD says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,” says the LORD. “They will come again from the land of the enemy. See also: Ruth 2:12Hebrews 6:10Jeremiah 30:3There is hope for your latter end,” says the LORD. “Your children will come again to their own territory. See also: Lamentations 3:21Hosea 3:5Hosea 2:15“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are the LORD my God. See also: Jeremiah 31:9Psalms 80:3Jeremiah 3:21-22Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’ See also: Ezekiel 36:31Jeremiah 3:25Ezekiel 21:12Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says the LORD. See also: Isaiah 55:7Micah 7:18-19Psalms 103:13“Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities. See also: Jeremiah 50:5Isaiah 62:10Jeremiah 31:4How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman will encompass a man.” See also: Jeremiah 49:4Jeremiah 7:24Matthew 1:21The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘The LORD bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’ See also: Zechariah 8:3Isaiah 1:26Jeremiah 50:7Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. See also: Zechariah 8:4-8Jeremiah 33:11-13Ezekiel 36:10For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.” See also: Matthew 5:6Matthew 11:28Psalms 107:9On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. See also: Zechariah 4:1-2Psalms 127:2“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal. See also: Hosea 2:23Ezekiel 36:9Ezekiel 36:11It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 24:6Jeremiah 1:10Jeremiah 18:7-9“In those days they will say no more, “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ See also: Ezekiel 18:2-3Lamentations 5:7Jeremiah 31:30But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge. See also: Ezekiel 18:20Isaiah 3:11Deuteronomy 24:16“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, See also: Hebrews 10:16-17Jeremiah 31:31-34Ezekiel 37:26not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says the LORD. See also: Exodus 24:6-8Deuteronomy 1:31Exodus 19:5“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. See also: 2 Corinthians 3:3Hebrews 10:16Hebrews 8:10They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” See also: Isaiah 43:25Hebrews 8:12Jeremiah 33:8The LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar— the LORD of Armies is his name, says: See also: Isaiah 51:15Jeremiah 10:16Psalms 136:7-9“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says the LORD, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.” See also: Jeremiah 33:20-26Psalms 89:36-37Isaiah 54:9-10The LORD says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 33:24-26Isaiah 40:12Romans 11:1-5“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that the city will be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. See also: Zechariah 14:102 Kings 14:13Jeremiah 30:18The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah. See also: Zechariah 2:1-2Ezekiel 40:8The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.” See also: 2 Samuel 15:23Joel 3:172 Kings 11:16
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)30 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Jeremiah 31:1
Ver. 1. Israel. The ten tribes returned as well as Juda, &c. C. --- They were more ready to receive Christ than the other two tribes. Mat. xiii. &c. W.
↑ 1Jeremiah 31:2
Ver. 2. Desert. From which the former inhabitants had been driven, (4 K. xvii. 6.
24. C.) or, as those under Moses were favoured, (H.) so shall the captives. Grot.
--- Sept. "I found him warm,"
( thermon, means also a lupin, which has misled the old Latin interpreters. S.
Jer.) murdered "in the desert, with those slain by the sword. Go, and destroy not Israel." H.
↑ 2Jeremiah 31:3
Ver. 3. Afar. He has seemed to despise me, (S. Jer.) or he has spoken to my ancestors. C. ---
Chal. He has "manifested himself long ago to our fathers. Prophet, tell them I have," &c. Ps.
xxxv. 11. and cviii. 11. C.
↑ 3Jeremiah 31:5
Ver. 5. Samaria. Its wine was famous. Judg. ix. 27. Jos. Bel. iii. 2. --- Time, three years being elapsed. Lev. xix. 35. C. --- Prot. "plant, and shall eat (marg.
profane) them as common things."
They shall not be too greedy, (H.) but shall have leisure to enjoy the fruits of their labour. C.
↑ 5Jeremiah 31:6
Ver. 6. Watchmen. Some were stationed on eminences to observe the first appearances of the moon, (C.) which was a sort of festival. H.
↑ 6Jeremiah 31:7
Ver. 7. Head. Rejoice over Babylon. --- Save. Heb. Hoshang, "I beg," was usually added; and this acclamation is used by the Church.
↑ 7Jeremiah 31:8
Ver. 8. Together. All shall hasten, and there shall be no impediment. Is. xxxv. 5.
↑ 8Jeremiah 31:9
Ver. 9. Shall, or "came" into captivity. Bar. vi. 6. Ps. cxxv. 6. Is. lxvi. 20. --- Way.
They shall find every accommodation, and plenty of water. Is. xxxv. 7. and xlix.
10. --- Born. Chal.
"beloved." I will treat the ten tribes as well as Juda. Christ inebriates his disciples with his graces. C. --- Ephraim shall be treated with all the love and attention shewn to the first-born. W.
↑ 9Jeremiah 31:12
Ver. 12. Sion. There shall be no farther schism or idolatry among them. --- No more, if they prove faithful. This was not the case.
↑ 12Jeremiah 31:14
Ver. 14. Fatness. Abundant crops secured them more plentiful tythes, as long as the people preserved their religion. H. --- No nation had more priests, or better provided for. C.
↑ 14Jeremiah 31:15
Ver. 15. High. Lit. "high places." Heb. Rama. H. --- There was a city of this name near Bethlehem, where Rachel was buried. Benjamin was her son, and was conducted by this road to Babylon. Chal. Grot. T. --- Ephraim and Manasses were also her grandchildren, and she may bewail their captivity by personification. S. Mat. (ii. 18.) shews that this prediction was more fully accomplished when the innocents were slain. The same passage may allude to different events. C. --- All the people of God, both of the ten and of the two tribes, bewailed their captivity, and the mothers lamented for those slain near Bethlehem. W.
↑ 15Jeremiah 31:16
Ver. 16. Reward. A time fixed for thy tears being dried up. Is. xvi. 14. and xl. 10.
↑ 16Jeremiah 31:18
Ver. 18. I was. Chal. Theodoret, and S. Chrys. have "not." But chastisement produced a salutary effect upon the ten tribes. Osee vi. 1. and xiv. 3. ---
Convert. Bring me back from captivity and from my evil ways. This must be attributed to grace. C. --- We cannot repent without it. S. Jer.
--- Da quod jubes. S. Aug. Conf. x. 19. and 31. and 37. --- God's grace is the principal cause of justification. Man's co-operation is the secondary cause. W.
↑ 18Jeremiah 31:19
Ver. 19. Thigh, through grief. Femur mœrenti plangere dextrâ. Metam. xi. ---
Cyrus struck his thigh, mounted his horse, and went to attend the funeral of Abradates. Xen. vii. --- So did Achilles for Patroclus. Il. xvi. --- Youth, being seduced by Jeroboam.
↑ 19Jeremiah 31:20
Ver. 20. I spoke. Heb. "my word is in him," and he is docile to my instructions.
↑ 20Jeremiah 31:21
Ver. 21. Tower, to bewail thy past follies; or signals to know the way, or tombs for thy beloved.
↑ 21Jeremiah 31:22
Ver. 22. Daughter. Bury thy dead, and delay thy return no longer. The Israelites did not soon make use of the leave granted by Cyrus. C. --- Man. Heb. "a hero."
T. --- The fathers generally explain this of the incarnation. C. --- Christ had the perfect use of reason in the virgin's womb.
H. --- He was the brightness of his Father's glory. Heb. i. 3. Even some ancient Jews apply this to the Messias. Galatin. vii. 14. But the moderns understand that women would offer themselves in marriage; the times would be so happy.
This was not so unusual in countries where polygamy prevailed. Ruth iii. 9. Is.
iv. 1. Cant. viii. 1. C. --- Hence this is hardly the meaning; for God promises something new. H. --- "The Lord hat created a new thing in a woman." Aquila.
---
Symmachus agrees nearly with the Sept. "because the Lord has created thee by salvation a new plantation. Men shall go about in thy salvation." This
"might be explained, if it were not sacrilegious to argue respecting God's word by human sense," says S. Jerom; though this censure of "the Vulgate" (Sept.) seems rather harsh. He complains here of his copy. Theodoret explains it of the apostles going through the world to spread the gospel. H. --- Behold whence thy happiness must come, (M.) O thou who hast so long proved faithless, going astray after many lovers. H. ---
Christ, in his mother's womb, was in stature small, but a perfect man (W.) in the use of reason,
&c. H.
↑ 22Jeremiah 31:23
Ver. 23. Bless thee. Thus the captives speak in rapture at their return.
↑ 23Jeremiah 31:24
Ver. 24. Together. Jerusalem shall be large enough to contain all, at the great festivals.
↑ 24Jeremiah 31:26
Ver. 26. To me. Thus Jeremias concludes his prediction with joy. C.
↑ 26Jeremiah 31:27
Ver. 27. Men. They shall increase exceedingly by my blessing. H. --- Beasts were the source of their riches. Hence pecunia is derived from pecus. W.
↑ 27Jeremiah 31:29
Ver. 29. Edge. Such observations had been too often made. Ezec. xviii. 12. H.
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Henceforward you shall not suffer for the faults of Achab, Manasses, &c. Each one shall bear his own burden. The captivity has been like a deluge, cleaning all away. C.
↑ 29Jeremiah 31:31
Ver. 31. Covenant. That made with the captives was not such. Their covenant is grown old, and at an end, as S. Paul shews. Heb. viii. 8. They were not indeed divided, as they had been. Ezec.
xxxvii. 16.
↑ 31Jeremiah 31:32
Ver. 32. Dominion. As a husband, (Heb. C.) or "Lord." H. --- "I despised them."
Sept. Heb.
viii.
↑ 32Jeremiah 31:33
Ver. 33. Heart. They were more docile after their return: yet still their service was very imperfect and forced. How many false traditions were received, at the coming of Christ! This of course, regards his disciples.
↑ 33Jeremiah 31:34
Ver. 34. Lord. Christ himself came to instruct mankind. The true God was better known than ever, even by the illiterate. Yet God requires us to have recourse to men, in order to know his truths, as S. Paul was sent to Hananias, and the eunuch to Philip. H. --- The apostles were enlightened by the Holy Ghost, (Jo.
vi. 45. S. Aug. de Spir. C.) who still guides the flock by his pastors. The private spirit is too fanatical and delusive. H. --- The most ignorant shall easily become acquainted with the truths of salvation. External preaching is requisite, though of little use unless grace touch the mind and the heart. T. --- All will hear successively, (H.) or embrace the gospel at the same time, for several years before the last day. Houbig. pref. in Prop. 356. Is.
xi. 9. and xlv. 23. Soph. iii. 9. &c. H.
↑ 34Jeremiah 31:36
Ver. 36. Ever. Like the Chanaanites and Ephraim during the captivity. Is. vii. 8.
God restored the latter. Yet they are again dispersed from above 17 centuries, so that this perpetuity, which shall equal the world's duration, belongs to the Church. C. --- Israel remains, not in the incredulous Jews, but in those who with the apostles embraced and propagated the faith of Christ.
S. Jer. W.
↑ 36Jeremiah 31:37
Ver. 37. Out, experimentally, and not by philosophical hypotheses, which were little known in the days of Jeremias. C. --- Sept. "if it be made lower." H. --- This is impossible; so it is that I should abandon Israel. Theodor. --- All was not faithless. C. --- The Israel of God embraced the gospel. H.
↑ 37Jeremiah 31:38
Ver. 38. Come, is only in the margin of the Hebrew, but is found properly in some MSS.
Kennicott. --- Corner. On the south, opposite to the former. 2 Esd. iii. 1.
↑ 38Jeremiah 31:40
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 40. Valley of Hinnom, or Topheth, (C. vii. 32. and xix. 6.) where Cedron flowed. Zac. xiv.
4. C. --- The city was much enlarged on this side, under the Machabees. Jos.
Bel. vi. 6. --- Ever.
Yet the temple was utterly destroyed by the Romans, so that we must explain this of the Catholic Church, founded on a rock, and proof against the gates of hell, and all the malice of heretics and persecutors. Mat. xvi. 18. C.
↑ 40License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses