 | Carl Sandburg - 1995 - 238 pages
...they show'd the way, First to believe, and then obey. Benefits of Affliction — Self-Abasement Surely after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh:...did bear the reproach of my youth. Jer. xxxi. 19. Dumb at thy feet I lie, For thou hast brought me low; Remove thy judgments, lest I die; I faint beneath... | |
 | John Kershaw - 1995 - 308 pages
...could not turn his own captivity, so he cries to the Lord to turn him. "Surely after that I was turned, I repented, and after that I was instructed, I smote...confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth." This is the account Ephraim gives of himself, and of the dealings of the Lord with him. In the next... | |
 | Gail Twersky Reimer, Judith A. Kates - 1997 - 372 pages
...Turn thou me, and I shall be turned, For Thou art the LORD my God. "Surely after that I was turned, I repented, And after that I was instructed, I smote...confounded, Because I did bear the reproach of my youth.' MIs Ephraim a H«rling son unto Me? Is he a child that is dandled? For as often as I speak of him,... | |
 | William Gordon Braude, Israel James Kapstein - 1997 - 598 pages
...his actions. I would cross the note out." In JV, Jer. 31:19 reads: Surely after that I u'as turned. I repented, and after that I was instructed. I smote upon my thigh: I u'as ashamed, yea. even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth The words reproach... | |
 | Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen - 2000 - 388 pages
...iniquities of my youth" (Job 13:26). Likewise, penitent Ephraim cries, "Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote...because I did bear the reproach of my youth" (Jer. 31:19). When the psalmist prays, "Remember not," he is asking God: • To forgo punishing his sins... | |
 | John Gill - 2001 - 380 pages
...exercise of it, follows upon real conversion and divine instruction, Surely after that I was turned I repented, and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh, Jer. xxxi. 19. upon such a turn as is made by powerful and efficacious grace, and upon such instruction... | |
 | Ewan Fernie - 2002 - 298 pages
...that brings the immaturely sinful Ephraim home to God: he recalls, 'Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote...confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.' (Jeremiah 3 1.1 9) Penitent shame is typically imagined by Christians as a turning back to confront... | |
 | Lisa M. Gordis - 2003 - 321 pages
...in this verse. In Jeremiah 31:19, repentance precedes instruction: "Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote...confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth." While this may be an instance of parallelism rather than an assertion of chronological sequence, it... | |
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - 2004 - 520 pages
...Psalms 69.7, "Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face": Jeremiah 31.19."! was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth." [K] 34-35 Universal reproach, far worse to beare / Then violence. This sentiment is very just and not... | |
 | William Huntington - 2005 - 342 pages
...turned from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. "Surely after that I was turned I repented; and after that I was instructed I smote...did bear the reproach of my youth," Jer. xxxi. 19. This sprung not from a spirit of bondage, but from the spirit of adoption; not from a servant, but... | |
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I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; "Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented ; and... 
