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Jer_31:20 [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
Ver. 20. Is Ephraim a dear son? is he a pleasant child?] q.d., Ay sure he is; and never more dear and pleasant than when thus beblubbered; like as some faces appear most oriently beautiful when they are most enstamped with sorrow. Heb., Is he a child of delight? q.d., He may seem to be otherwise by my hard dealing with him; but so he is assuredly - "Behold, he whom thou lovest is sick." {Joh_11:3}
For since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still.] Or, So oft as I speak of him, I am mindful still of him. See Isa_49:14; Isa_49:16.
Therefore my bowels are troubled for him.] Perstrepunt viscera mea. My bowels work, as that mother’s did toward her child; {1Ki_3:26} as Croesus’ dumb son’s did, when seeing a fellow ready to kill his father, he burst out into, Kill not king Croesus. {a} See Hos_11:8. {See Trapp on "Hos_11:8"}
{a} Aíèñùðå, õç êôåéíå ôïí Kñïéóïí . - Herod.