Jeremiah 31:21 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 31:21

“Set up the roadmarks, establish the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.

BSB

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ASV

Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

KJV

Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Vers. 21, 22.) Set up watchmen for yourself, make for yourself bitternesses: direct your heart to the straight path in which you have walked. Return, O virgin Israel, return to your cities. How long will you indulge in pleasures, wandering daughter? For the Lord has created something new on the earth: a woman will encompass a man. LXX: Set up watchmen for yourself, do penance, put your heart on your shoulders, the way in which you have walked. Return, O virgin Israel, return to your mourning cities. How long will you turn away, despised daughter?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Set thee up way marks, make thee high heaps,.... Of stones, raised up as pillars, or like pyramids; or upright, as palm trees, which signification the word (z) has; to be marks and signs, to know the way again upon a return. The Targum is, "O congregation of Israel, remember the right works of thy fathers; pour out supplications; in bitterness set thy heart.'' And so the Vulgate Latin version interprets the last clause, "put on bitternesses", without any sense; so Cocceius.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Set thee up waymarks - Alluding to stones, or heaps of stones, which travelers in the desert set up to ascertain the way, that they may know how to return. Mark the way to Babylon: thither ye shall certainly go; but from it ye shall as certainly return.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַצִּ֧יבִי	ha.Tzi.vi	set up	H5324 →
לָ֣ךְ	lakh	for <the> yourself
צִיֻּנִ֗ים	tzi.yu.Nim	signposts	H6725 →
שִׂ֤מִי	Si.mi	place	H7760 →
לָךְ֙	loKh	for <the> yourself
תַּמְרוּרִ֔ים	tam.ru.Rim	guideposts	H8564 →
שִׁ֣תִי	Shi.ti	set	H7896 →
לִבֵּ֔ךְ	li.Bekh	heart your	H3820 →
לַֽמְסִלָּ֖ה	lam.si.Lah	to the highway	H4546 →
דֶּ֣רֶךְ	De.rekh	[the] way	H1870 →
הָלָ֑כְתְּ	ha.la.khe.ti	[which] you went	H1980 →
שׁ֚וּבִי	Shu.vi	return	H7725 →
בְּתוּלַ֣ת	be.tu.Lat	O virgin of	H1330 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
שֻׁ֖בִי	Shu.vi	return	H7725 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
עָרַ֥יִךְ	'a.Ra.yikh	cities your	H5892 →
אֵֽלֶּה׃	'E.leh	these	H428 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 62:10
Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!
leads to
- Isaiah 57:14
  And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
- Isaiah 40:3
  A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
- Hebrews 12:13
  Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
- Isaiah 49:22
  This is what the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and raise My banner to the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms and carry…
- Isaiah 11:10
  On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
Through
Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
leads to
- Jeremiah 33:7
  I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.
- Jeremiah 31:13
  Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.
Through
Ezekiel 40:4
“Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought…
leads to
- Ezekiel 44:5
  The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the…