Jeremia 33:3

3 Roep tot Mij, en Ik zal u antwoorden, en Ik zal u bekend maken grote en vaste dingen, die gij niet weet.

Jeremia 33:3 Meaning and Commentary

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (twrub) "munita", Vatablus, Paganinus, Montanus; "fortia", Tigurine version.
F17 (twrun) "abstrusa", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "recondita", so some in Vatablus.

Jeremia 33:3 In-Context

1 Voorts geschiedde des HEEREN woord ten tweeden male tot Jeremia, als hij nog in het voorhof der bewaring was opgesloten, zeggende:

2 Zo zegt de HEERE, Die het doet, de HEERE, Die dat formeert, opdat Hij het bevestige, HEERE is Zijn Naam;

3 Roep tot Mij, en Ik zal u antwoorden, en Ik zal u bekend maken grote en vaste dingen, die gij niet weet.

4 Want zo zegt de HEERE, de God Israels, van de huizen dezer stad, en van de huizen der koningen van Juda, die door de wallen en door het zwaard zijn afgebroken:

5 Er zijn er wel ingekomen, om te strijden tegen de Chaldeen, maar het is om die te vullen met dode lichamen van mensen, die Ik verslagen heb in Mijn toorn en in Mijn grimmigheid; en omdat Ik Mijn aangezicht van deze stad verborgen heb, om al hunlieder boosheid.