Paul's sweetest epistles were those that bore date out of a prison. The covenant of the priesthood is called a covenant of peace (Numbers 25:12), of life and peace, Malachi 2:5. The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off: The two families are those of the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah. Peace stands here for all good peace and truth are peace according to the promise and in pursuance of that: or peace and truth are peace and the true religion, peace and the true worship of God, in opposition to the many falsehoods and deceits by which they had been led away from God. Jerusalem thus rebuilt, Judah thus repeopled, shall be to me a name of joy, as pleasing to God as ever they have been provoking, and a praise and an honour before all the nations. i. That this shall redound very much to the glory of God, Jeremiah 33:9. A chapter of promises, having reference, first, to the people and kingdom in general (Jeremiah 33:4-13), and then to the royal and priestly offices in particular (Jeremiah 33:14-26).The first part is but the expansion of passages in the preceding prophecy, to which this chapter is attached by the opening verse. Those who say God has cast them off and that He is finished with them as a nation commit the great sin of despising His people. a. Click on the different category headings to find out more. 12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. There is no graduation from the school of prayer, for … II. After their return the house of David made a figure again but it in the Messiah that this promise is performed that David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of Israel, and that David shall have always a son to reign upon his throne. For the LORD is good, We may request cookies to be set on your device. That the covenant with David shall be as firm as the ordinances of heaven, to the stability of which that of God's promise is compared, Jeremiah 31:35. 3. It wouldn’t only be Jerusalem restored, but all the land. (Read Jeremiah 33:1-13) Those who expect to receive comforts from God, must call upon him. c. Praise the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for His mercy endures forever: Instead of the anguished cries of a city under judgment, they would hear the sound of people praising God for His goodness and ever-enduring mercy. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. “Jeremiah does not reveal as much about the coming Messiah as Isaiah does, but nevertheless provides glimpses of Christ as the Fountain of living waters (Jeremiah 2:13), the good Shepherd (Jeremiah 23:4; 31:10), the righteous Branch (Jeremiah 23:5), the Redeemer (Jeremiah 50:34), the Lord our righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6) and David the king (Jeremiah 30:9).” (Harrison). As those that were ceremonially unclean, and were therefore shut out from the tabernacle, when they were sprinkled with the water of purification had liberty of access to it again, so had they to their own land, and the privileges of it, when God had cleansed them from their iniquities. 9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. "The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint (Isaiah 1:5) but (Jeremiah 33:6) I will bring it health and cure I will prevent the death, remove the sickness, and set all to rights again," Jeremiah 30:17. Verses 1-26. i. by Brad Boyles. The prophecy itself. Now because it seemed incredible that a people, reduced as now they were, should ever recover such a degree of peace and plenty as this, here is subjoined a general ratification of these promises (Jeremiah 33:14): I will perform that good thing which I have promised. In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowlands: God described different geographical regions of the land of Israel, explaining that the restoration promised to would extend to all of these regions. a. The strongest stateliest houses, and those that were best furnished, were levelled with the ground. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’”. Sin has brought God’s punishment and no one is getting out of this unscathed. i. As a king that shall be praised by his subjects: "This is the name whereby they shall call him" (so the Chaldee reads it, the Syriac, and vulgar Latin) "this name of his they shall celebrate and triumph in, and by this name they shall call upon him." Right in the centre of Jeremiah is a passage which prophesies of peace, prosperity, comfort and hope for the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. From the womb of the morning he shall have the dew of their youth, to be his willing people, Psalm 110:3. He offered the heavenly bodies as a security deposit for his covenant promise. b. “Joy and gladness will not only mark the relationships of God’s people but will also mark their worship in his temple. The Jews say that in the days of the Messiah all sacrifices shall cease but the sacrifice of praise, and to those days this promise has a further reference. 17 For thus saith the LORD David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. And we find it abundantly performed, 1. Observe, 1. The seed of Jacob, in their beginning, gloried in this, that they were shepherds (Genesis 47:3), and so they shall now be again, giving themselves wholly to that innocent employment, causing their flocks to lie down (Jeremiah 33:12) and to pass under the hands of him that telleth them (Jeremiah 33:13) for, though their flocks are numerous, they are not numberless, nor shall they omit to number them, that they may know if any be missing and may seek after it. One can imagine the miserable screams, cries, groans, and the sound of crashing and destruction. When these appeared to be most in danger of extinction in Jeremiah’s day, we find their continuance couched in sure and irrevocable terms.” (Feinberg), Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, “Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Enjoy this free digital Jeremiah 33 commentary from ExplainingTheBook.com! When the heavens and the earth were finished, then, and not till then, the creator is called Jehovah, Genesis 2:4. It is promised that the people who were long in sorrow shall again be filled with joy. What the blessings are which God has in store for Judah and Jerusalem, such as will redress all their grievances. I am drawn to the same verse Hank has written about. Pardon brings the offender back into relationship of favour and fellowship. It may be read, more agreeably to the original, This is he who shall call her, The Lord our righteousness. The apostle makes those that preach the gospel to come in the room of those that served at the altar, 1 Corinthians 9:13,14. That the city shall be rebuilt and re-established "in statu quo--in its former state," Jeremiah 33:1-6. The covenant of royalty shall be secured and the promises of it shall have their full accomplishment in the kingdom of Christ, the Son of David, Jeremiah 33:17. He had prayed (Jeremiah 32:16), but he must pray again. When the first-begotten was brought into the world it was declared concerning him, The Lord God shall give him the throne of his father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, Luke 1:32,33. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. And that is a theologically sound way of reading this passage from Jeremiah. While that great high priest of our profession is always appearing in the presence of God for us, presenting the virtue of his blood by which he made atonement in the incense of his intercession, it may truly be said that the Levites do not want a man before God to offer continually, Hebrews 7:3,17. “In our passage, however, the promise contains no hint of the hidden elements in its fulfillment, but (as A.W. This faith and repentance is not something we create but is rather the gift of the Lord (Eph. That the seed of David shall be as numerous as the host of heaven, that is, the spiritual seed of the Messiah, that shall be born to him by the efficacy of his gospel and his Spirit working with it. God repeats them for assurance and emphasis. Jeremiah 33:2. And the following words tell us how that is wrought: "I will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth I will give it to them in due time, and give them an encouraging prospect of it in the mean time." Thus they have despised My people as if they should no more be a nation before them: God said of those who thought that Israel was cast off from His love or plan that they despised His people and therefore sinned. There is a covenant of nature, by which the common course of providence is settled and on which it is founded, here called a covenant of the day and the night (Jeremiah 33:20,25), because this is one of the articles of it, That there shall be day and night in their season, according to the distinction put between them in the creation, when God divided between the light and the darkness, and established their mutual succession, and a government to each, that the sun should rule by day and the moon and stars by night (Genesis 1:4,5,16), which establishment was renewed after the flood (Genesis 8:22), and has continued ever since, Psalm 19:2. Again, the new covenant reaches out to the whole world, not only to Israel; but it does not ignore or set aside Israel. The same is true of the promise to the Levitical priests, since all their atoning work was done to perfection and for eternity by him, and their role in offering ‘the sacrifice of praise’ has been perpetuated and extended in the royal priesthood of believers.” (Kidner), ii. He is the maker and former of this promise he has laid the scheme for Jerusalem's restoration, and he that has formed it will establish it, he that has made the promise will make it good for Jehovah is his name, a God giving being to his promises by the performance of them, and when he does this he is known by that name (Exodus 6:3), a perfecting God. The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the foregoing chapter--to confirm the promise of the restoration of the Jews, notwithstanding the present desolations of their country and dispersions of their people. Jeremiah 33 Commentary. See Ezekiel 36:37. [1.] "As for the pledge that David would never lack a man to sit on the throne … of Israel (Jeremiah 33:17, 21a), we can see how profoundly the fulfillment in the person of Christ transcends the expectation (Revelation 11:15; 22:16). c. So will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me: God promised innumerable servants to come along side of the Messiah to come from David’s line. By sin they have become guilty, and obnoxious to his justice but he will pardon all their iniquities, will remove the punishment to which for sin they were bound over. The days will come, though they are long in coming. Show content in: English Both Hebrew. “Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah: In those days and at that time Jeremiah 33 is a continuation of the Book of Encouragement and of Jeremiah 32’s encouragement to Jeremiah to buy a field. (2.) 3. No more would it be a place of idolatry, rebellion, shame, and the destruction that came from all those. The prophet, having received some intimations of this kind, must be humbly earnest with God for further discoveries of his kind intentions. 2. 14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. She can have the same name as the Messiah because she reflects that righteousness the Messiah bestows on her.” (Feinberg), ii. b. “Salvation and safety are in store for Judah and Jerusalem because of the presence of justice and righteousness personified. If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night: God’s covenant with David – the promise to bring the Messiah who will reign from his line (2 Samuel 7:12-16) – was as certain as the reliability of day and night. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. They, being thus restored, shall glorify God by their obedience to him, and he shall glorify himself by his favours to them. JEREMIAH 33 COMMENTARY EDITED BY GLENN PEASE Promise of Restoration 1 While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him a second time: CLARKE, "Moreover the word of the Lord - This was in the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah, Jeremiah being still shut up in prison: but he was now in the court of the … In all true believers, who are a holy priesthood, a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:5,9), who are made to our God kings and priests (Revelation 1:6) they offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God, and themselves, in the first place, living sacrifices. Jeremiah 33:3 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Jeremiah 33:3, NIV: "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.'" Note, Promises are given, not to supersede, but to quicken and encourage prayer. Thus says the LORD of hosts: “In this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall again be a dwelling place of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. Christ himself must ask, and it shall be given him, Psalm 2:8. Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying, “Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORDis His name): ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’” a. PROPHECY OF THE RESTORATION FROM BABYLON, AND OF MESSIAH AS KING AND PRIEST. When the church is fair as the moon, and clear as the sun, she is terrible as an army with banners. The *Sins of God’s People. b. It is the same word that is used Ezekiel 26:9, With his axes he shall break down thy towers. If God ever fails to provide an eternal King or a permanent priest, then the sun and the moon will be yours to keep!” (Ryken), ii. 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,. Meaning either the ministers of the Gospel, who should not only be liberally provided for as to their maintenance. 4. 3. Is it wounded? [1.] thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. An EasyEnglish Bible Version and Commentary (2800 word vocabulary) on Jeremiah chapters 1 to 10. www.easyenglish.bible. They sang together in praising the Lord, because he is good, for his mercy endures for ever. The children are numerous and, if children, then heirs. Hilda Bright. i. Jeremiah: Jeremiah Declares God’s Message to Judah. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer. But that priesthood soon grew corrupt the covenant of Levi was profaned (as appears Malachi 2:8), and in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans it came to a final period. Profound is the magnitude of God’s mercy in Jeremiah 30-33, making it an apt description of God’s plan to restore His people in the new covenant and the coming of Messiah. III. 2. A word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. Though Jeremiah was shut up in bondage, the word of God was "not bound." Observe here, I. 2. It did so immediately upon their coming back to Jerusalem there were priests and Levites ready to offer burnt-offerings and to do sacrifice continually (Ezra 3:2,3), as is here promised, Jeremiah 33:18. Christ rules by the power of truth (John 18:37) and by it he gives abundance of peace, Psalm 72:7,85:10. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. He sent his word and healed them, Psalm 107:20. b. It would be a city and a people who truly found their righteousness in the LORD. God will provide effectually for the healing of it, though the disease was thought mortal and incurable, Jeremiah 7:22. Yirmiyahu - Jeremiah - Chapter 33 « Previous Chapter 32. You can also change some of your preferences. Jeremiah 30–34:7 | Book of Encouragement And at this point — having summarized Jeremiah 1-6, 7-20, 21-26, and 27-29 — you need to admit that things are looking pretty bleak. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. II. i. Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. Study Jeremiah 33 using Wesley’s Explanatory Notes to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning.