Jeremiah 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer thee
This is spoken not to Jerusalem, and the inhabitants of it; but
to the prophet, encouraging him to seek the Lord by prayer,
promising an answer to him. So the Targum,
``pray before me, and I will receive thy prayer:''
and show thee great and mighty things;
or, "fortified ones"
F16; which are like fortified cities,
that cannot easily be come at, unless the gates are opened to enter
into; and designs such as are difficult of understanding, which
exceed human belief, and which reason cannot comprehend and take
in; and such are the great things of the Gospel. Some copies read
it, "things reserved"
F17; as the Targum; and so Jarchi, who
interprets it of things future, of things reserved in the heart of
God, and which he purposed to do; and very rightly:
which
thou knowest not;
until revealed; and from hence it appears, that by these great and
hidden things are not meant the destruction of Jerusalem, and the
seventy years' captivity, and return from that, things which
Jeremiah had been made acquainted with time after time, and had
prophesied of them; but spiritual blessings hereafter mentioned,
some of which the deliverance from Babylon were typical of Ben
Melech interprets these of comforts great and strong.