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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 3:14 - 3:14
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I am married - literally, “I am Lord,” that is, husband to you (so Jer 31:32; compare Hos 2:19, Hos 2:20; Isa 54:5). Gesenius, following the Septuagint version of Jer 31:32, and Paul’s quotation of it (Heb 8:9), translates, “I have rejected you”; so the corresponding Arabic, and the idea of lordship, may pass into that of looking down upon, and so rejecting. But the Septuagint in this passage translates, “I will be Lord over you.” And the “for” has much more force in English Version than in that of Gesenius. The Hebrew hardly admits the rendering though [Hengstenberg].
take you one of a city - Though but one or two Israelites were in a (foreign) city, they shall not be forgotten; all shall be restored (Amo 9:9). So, in the spiritual Israel, God gathers one convert here, another there, into His Church; not the least one is lost (Mat 18:14; Rom 11:5; compare Jer 24:5-7).
family - a clan or tribe.