Jeremias 31:21

21 “Coloque marcose ponha sinais nas estradas,preste atenção no caminhoque você trilhou.Volte, ó virgem, Israel!Volte para as suas cidades.

Jeremias 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".

Jeremias 31:21 In-Context

19 De fato, depois de desviar-me,eu me arrependi;depois que entendi, bati no meu peito.Estou envergonhado e humilhadoporque trago sobre mima desgraça da minha juventude’.

20 Não é Efraim o meu filho querido?O filho em quem tenho prazer?Cada vez que eu falo sobre Efraim,mais intensamente me lembro dele.Por isso, com ansiedade o tenho em meu coração;tenho por ele grande compaixão”,declara o SENHOR.

21 “Coloque marcose ponha sinais nas estradas,preste atenção no caminhoque você trilhou.Volte, ó virgem, Israel!Volte para as suas cidades.

22 Até quando você vagará,ó filha rebelde?O SENHOR criou algo novo nesta terra:uma mulher abraça um guerreiro”.

23 Assim diz o SENHOR dos Exércitos, o Deus de Israel: “Quando eu os trouxer de volta do cativeiro, o povo de Judá e de suas cidades dirá novamente: ‘O SENHOR a abençoe, ó morada justa, ó monte sagrado’.