Jeremia 33:15

15 In die dagen, en te dier tijd zal Ik David een SPRUIT der gerechtigheid doen uitspruiten; en Hij zal recht en gerechtigheid doen op aarde.

Jeremia 33:15 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 33:15

In those days, and at that time
In those very selfsame days before spoken of; in those days to come, and which were hastening on; in the fulness of time, agreed on between Jehovah and his Son; the appointed, fixed, determined time: will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David;
not Zerubbabel, but the Messiah; who is not only a branch of David's family, and therefore said to grow up unto him, being of his seed, his son, and offspring; but a Branch of righteousness, or a righteous Branch; perfectly righteous in himself, and the author of righteousness unto others; which cannot be said of Zerubbabel, or of any other branch springing from David but the Messiah; and of him the Targum interprets it, paraphrasing it thus,

``the Messiah of righteousness;''

and Kimchi's note is,

``this is the King Messiah;''

and so it is by other Jewish writers ^F24 interpreted of him: and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land;
judgment upon the blind Pharisees given up to judicial blindness and hardness of heart; and upon the world, and the prince of it, who was cast out by him; and though he came not at first to judge the world and all the individuals of it, as he will do at his second coming; yet all judgment, rule, and government of his church, is committed to him by his Father; and he is on the throne to order and establish it with judgment, and to overrule all things for the good of it, and his own and his Father's glory: and he has "wrought" out an everlasting "righteousness", agreeably to law and justice, for the justification of his people; for which reason he and they have the name in ( Jeremiah 33:16 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Abarbinel, Mashmiah Jeshuah, fol. 40. 2.

Jeremia 33:15 In-Context

13 In de steden van het gebergte, in de steden der laagte, en in de steden van het zuiden, en in het land van Benjamin, en in de plaatsen rondom Jeruzalem, en in de steden van Juda, zullen de kudden wederom onder de handen des tellers doorgaan, zegt de HEERE.

14 Ziet, de dagen komen, spreekt de HEERE, dat Ik het goede woord verwekken zal, dat Ik tot het huis van Israel en over het huis van Juda gesproken heb.

15 In die dagen, en te dier tijd zal Ik David een SPRUIT der gerechtigheid doen uitspruiten; en Hij zal recht en gerechtigheid doen op aarde.

16 In die dagen zal Juda verlost worden, en Jeruzalem zeker wonen; en deze is, die haar roepen zal: De HEERE, onze GERECHTIGHEID.

17 Want zo zegt de HEERE: Aan David zal niet worden afgesneden een Man, Die op den troon van het huis Israels zitte.