Yēlìmǐshū 26:3

3 Huòzhĕ tāmen kĕn tīng cóng , gèrén huí tóu líkāi e dào , shǐ wǒ hòuhuǐ bú jiāng wǒ yīn tāmen suǒ xíng de è , xiǎng yào shīxíng de zāihuò jiàng yu tāmen .

Yēlìmǐshū 26:3 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 26:3

If so be they will hearken
And obey; which is expressive not of ignorance and conjecture in God, but of his patience and long suffering, granting space and time for repentance, and the means of it; which disregarded, leave without excuse: and turn every man from his evil way;
his series and course of life, which was evil, and was the case of everyone; so that as their sin was general, the reformation ought to be so too: that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do unto them;
or "am thinking", or "devising ^F4 to do unto them"; which repentance must be understood not of a change of mind, but of the course of his providence towards them, which, by his threatenings, and some steps taken, portended ruin and destruction; yet, in case of repentance and reformation, he would change his method of action agreeably to his will: because of the evil of their doings;
this was the reason why he had threatened them with the evil of punishment, because of the evil of their actions; which were breaches of his law, and such as provoked the eyes of his glory.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (bvx ykna rva) "quod ego (sum) cogitans", Schmidt.

Yēlìmǐshū 26:3 In-Context

1 Yóudà wáng Yuēxīyà de érzi yuē yǎ jìng dēng jī de shíhou , yǒu zhè huà cóng Yēhéhuá líndào Yēlìmǐ shuō ,

2 Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , nǐ zhàn zaì Yēhéhuá diàn de yuàn neì , duì Yóudà zhòng chéngyì de rén , jiù shì dào Yēhéhuá diàn lái lǐbaì de , shuō wǒ suǒ fēnfu nǐde yīqiè huà , yī zì bùkĕ shān jiǎn .

3 Huòzhĕ tāmen kĕn tīng cóng , gèrén huí tóu líkāi e dào , shǐ wǒ hòuhuǐ bú jiāng wǒ yīn tāmen suǒ xíng de è , xiǎng yào shīxíng de zāihuò jiàng yu tāmen .

4 Nǐ yào duì tāmen shuō , Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , nǐmen ruò bú tīng cóng wǒ , bù zūnxíng wǒ shèlì zaì nǐmen miànqián de lǜfǎ ,

5 Bú tīng wǒ cóng zǎo qǐlai chāiqiǎn dào nǐmen nàli qù wǒ púrén zhòng xiānzhī de huà ( nǐmen háishì méiyǒu tīng cóng ) ,