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The Promise of Deliverance
v. 1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, being given him by special and direct inspiration, saying,
v. 2. Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, His very words being recorded, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book, the prophecy thus inscribed on a roll becoming a part of the sacred record of the Bible.
v. 3. For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord, the restoration of all the members of His Church being included here, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. This introduction serves as a heading and summary of this entire section of Jeremiah's prophecy, and must be understood in the light of all that follows.
v. 4. And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah, His message transporting us with dramatic vividness into the very midst of the future, a future, moreover, which includes more than the history of the two nations as such.
v. 5. For thus saith the Lord, We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace, or, "A cry of terror have we heard: fear and no deliverance. "
v. 6. Ask ye now and see whether a man doth travail with child, which, of course, is contrary to nature. Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? It must be an extraordinary terror which could produce such a condition.
v. 7. Alas! for that day, the Messianic period with its sifting process among the nations, is great, Luk_2:34-35, so that none is like it; it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, a testing of hearts and minds. But he shall be saved out of it, all the true children of Jacob, the members of the spiritual Israel, being delivered from the wrath to come.
v. 8. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, deliver His people from the oppression of all its enemies, and will burst thy bonds, those with which the oppressors were trying to keep His children in subjection, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him, keeping Israel in bondage;
v. 9. but they shall serve the Lord, their God, and David, their King, the great Ruler Messiah, who was of the house and lineage of David, whom I will raise up unto them, for it was to Christ that the entire Messianic prophecy of the Old Testament pointed.
v. 10. Therefore fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, neither be dismayed, be filled with terror, O Israel, the cheering admonition being addressed to all believers; for, lo, I will save thee from afar and thy seed from the land of their captivity, the redemption of the world being spoken of under the picture of the deliverance from the Babylonian bondage; and Jacob shall return and shall be in rest and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid, the security of the children of God thus being emphasized. Cf Psa_46:5.
v. 11. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee, taking the part of those that are His own; though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, the overthrow of the world empire being a type of the overthrow of all enemies of Jehovah and His Church, yet will I not make a full end of thee, the deliverance of His people being always assured in the Gospel-message; but I will correct thee in measure, literally, "with judgment," in such moderation as will bring about a change of heart for the better in them, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished, for a chastisement of His children such as He exercises is intended to keep them in His ways, for the Lord's thoughts toward them are thoughts of love and of peace. Thus is the culmination of the Messianic period portrayed.