Jeremías 31:21

21 »Ponte señales en el camino,coloca marcas por donde pasaste,fíjate bien en el sendero.¡Vuelve, virginal Israel;vuelve a tus ciudades!

Jeremías 31:21 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 31:21

Set thee up way marks, make thee high heaps
Of stones, raised up as pillars, or like pyramids; or upright, as palm trees, which signification the word ^F26 has; to be marks and signs, to know the way again upon a return. The Targum is,

``O congregation of Israel, remember the right works of thy fathers; pour out supplications; in bitterness set thy heart.''

And so the Vulgate Latin version interprets the last clause, "put on bitternesses", without any sense; so Cocceius. The design of the words is to put the Jews upon thoughts of returning to their own land, and to prepare for it; set thine heart towards the highway, [even] the way [which] thou
wentest;
from Judea to Babylon, or into other countries; think of going the same way back again; for, as there was a highway from Judea, there is one to it; let thine heart be upon returning that way. Jarchi reads, "the way which I went"; that is, the way in which the Lord went with the people; the right way in which he guided and directed them; and in which following him, they could not err; see ( Isaiah 35:8 ) . The Targum is,

``consider the works which thou hast done, whether they are fight, when thou goest in a way afar off;''

turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities;
an invitation and encouragement to the Jews to turn again to their own land; as from the Babylonish captivity, so from all lands in the latter day; which is yet to be fulfilled, and to which the prophecy more properly belongs.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Myrwrmt) "columnulas", Schmidt; "pyramidas", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "palmulas", Tigurine version, "a (rmt) palma".

Jeremías 31:21 In-Context

19 Yo me aparté, pero me arrepentí;al comprenderlo me di golpes de pecho.Me siento avergonzado y humilladoporque cargo con el oprobio de mi juventud”.

20 »¿Acaso no es Efraín mi hijo amado?¿Acaso no es mi niño preferido?Cada vez que lo reprendo,vuelvo a acordarme de él.Por él mi corazón se conmueve;por él siento mucha compasión—afirma el SEÑOR—.

21 »Ponte señales en el camino,coloca marcas por donde pasaste,fíjate bien en el sendero.¡Vuelve, virginal Israel;vuelve a tus ciudades!

22 ¿Hasta cuándo andarás errante,hija infiel?El SEÑOR creará algo nuevo en la tierra,la mujer regresará a su esposo».

23 Así dice el SEÑORTodopoderoso, el Dios de Israel: «Cuando yo cambie su suerte, en la tierra de Judá y en sus ciudades volverá a decirse:»“Monte santo, morada de justicia:¡que el SEÑOR te bendiga!”