Jeremiah 31:22 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the earth: A woman shall encompass a man.

KJV

How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

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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)

How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?.... From place to, place, from country to country, from one kingdom to another, as the Jews do to this day; and not return unto the Lord, and David their king, and to their own country?

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A woman shall compass a man - נקבה תסובב גבר nekebah tesobeb gaber, “A weak woman shall compass or circumvent a strong man.” This place has given much trouble to Biblical critics. By many Christian writers it is considered a prophecy of the miraculous conception of the holy virgin; but as I am sure no such meaning is in the words, nor in the context, so I am satisfied no such meaning can be fairly brought out of them. Houbigant thinks there is a small error in the text, i.e., תשובב teshobeb, shall return, and not תסובב tesobeb, shall compass.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
מָתַי֙	ma.Tai	when?	H4970 →
תִּתְחַמָּקִ֔ין	tit.cha.ma.Kin	will you vacillate !	H2559 →
הַבַּ֖ת	ha.Bat	O daughter	H1323 →
הַשּֽׁוֹבֵבָ֑ה	ha.shoe.Vah	<the> apostate	H7728 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
בָרָ֨א	va.Ra'	he has created	H1254 →
יְהוָ֤ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
חֲדָשָׁה֙	cha.da.Shah	a new [thing]	H2319 →
בָּאָ֔רֶץ	ba.'A.retz	on the earth	H776 →
נְקֵבָ֖ה	ne.ke.Vah	a female	H5347 →
תְּס֥וֹבֵֽב	te.Soev	she will surround	H5437 →
גָּֽבֶר׃ ס	Ga.ver	a man	H1397 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

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
Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
leads to
- Acts 13:23
  From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.
- Acts 4:12
  Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
- John 1:29
  The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- 1 John 3:5
  But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
- Colossians 1:20–23
  and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
Through
Jeremiah 7:24
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
leads to
- Psalms 81:11–12
  But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
- Jeremiah 7:26
  Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
- Deuteronomy 29:19
  because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This…