Yēlìmǐshū 31:8

8 Wǒ bìjiāng tāmen cóng bĕi fāng lǐng lái , cōng dìjí zhāo jù . tóng zhe tāmen lái de yǒu xiāzi , quèzi , yùn fù , chǎn fù . tāmen bì chéngwéi dà bāng huí dào zhèlǐ lái .

Yēlìmǐshū 31:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 31:8

Behold, I will bring them from the north country
As from Babylon, at the end of the seventy years' captivity, which lay north of Judea; so, in the latter day, from those northern countries, as ours, where they now are in great numbers: and gather them from the coasts of the earth;
or "sides" of it; from all the parts of the world where they are: [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her
that travaileth with child together;
signifying that no difficulties whatsoever should hinder them in their return to their own land; provision should be made for persons under these circumstances, so unfit to travel. All this may be understood, in a figurative sense, of those who are spiritually "blind"; who are made to see their lost estate, and need of Christ; and are brought to him, and to his church, in a way they had not known, and in paths they knew not before: and of the lame and impotent, unable to do any good thing in a spiritual sense, and will not come to Christ, unless drawn; these are made to leap as a hart, and to flee to Christ for refuge, and run the ways of his commandments: and of such who are laden and burdened, as "women with child"; and who are encouraged and enabled as such to come to Christ, and cast their burdens on him, and find rest for their souls: and of such who are in pain and distress, as one "that travaileth with child": in the pangs of the new birth, under a sense of wrath, and as ready to perish; who also are enabled to come and venture their souls on Christ, receive his Gospel, and submit to his ordinances, where they find peace and comfort: a great company shall return thither;
three thousand were converted under one sermon, in the first times of the Gospel; and, in the latter day, the nation of the Jews shall be born again at once; the number of the children of Israel shall then be as the sand of the sea, and great shall be the day of Jezreel, ( Isaiah 66:8 ) ( Hosea 1:10 Hosea 1:11 ) .

Yēlìmǐshū 31:8 In-Context

6 Rìzi bì dào , Yǐfǎlián shān shang shǒu wàng de rén bì hūjiào shuō , qǐlai ba . wǒmen kĕyǐ shang Xī \'ān , dào Yēhéhuá wǒmen de shén nàli qù .

7 Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , nǐmen dāng wèi Yǎgè huānlè gē chàng , yīn wàn guó zhōng wèi shǒu de huānhū . dāng chuányáng sòngzàn shuō , Yēhéhuá a , qiú nǐ zhĕngjiù nǐde bǎixìng Yǐsèliè suǒ shèngxia de rén .

8 Wǒ bìjiāng tāmen cóng bĕi fāng lǐng lái , cōng dìjí zhāo jù . tóng zhe tāmen lái de yǒu xiāzi , quèzi , yùn fù , chǎn fù . tāmen bì chéngwéi dà bāng huí dào zhèlǐ lái .

9 Tāmen yào kūqì ér lái . wǒ yào zhào tāmen kĕnqiú de yǐndǎo tāmen , shǐ tāmen zaì hé shuǐ páng zǒu zhèngzhí de lù , zaì qí shang bù zhì bàn diē . yīnwei wǒ shì Yǐsèliè de fù , Yǐfǎlián shì wǒde zhǎngzǐ .

10 Liè guó a , yào tīng Yēhéhuá de huà , chuányáng zaì yuǎn chù de hǎidǎo shuō , gǎnsàn Yǐsèliè de bì zhāo jù tā , yòu kānshǒu tā , hǎoxiàng mùrén kānshǒu yáng qún .