From afar Jehovah hath appeared to me, With love age-during I have loved thee, Therefore I have drawn thee with kindness.Jeremiah 31:3 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleI have loved thee with an everlasting love - ואהבת עולם אהבתיך veahabath olam ahabtich, "and with the old love I have loved thee." "Also, with a love of long standing have I loved thee." - Blayney. "But I love thee always." - Dahler. I still bear to the Jewish people that love which I showed to their fathers in Egypt, in the wilderness, and in the promised land. Can it be supposed, by any person seriously considering the context, that these words are spoken of God's decree of election in behalf of the Jews? Those who make it such, act most injudiciously on their own principle; for, how few of the Jews have ever given evidence that they were the children of God, from their restoration from Babylon to the present day! The words refer simply to their state as a people, most wondrously preserved by the providence and mercy of God, as a standing proof of the Divine authority of the Scriptures, and as an evidence of God's displeasure against sin.
Therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee - "Therefore have I lengthened out mercy to thee." - Blayney,
C'est pourquoi je t'ai conserve ma grace.
Dahler.
"Therefore I have preserved my grace to thee."
The exiles, who had not for a long time received any proofs of the Divine protection, are represented as deploring their state; but God answers, that though this may seem to be the case, he has always loved them; and this continued love he will show by bringing them out of their captivity. However creeds may fare, this is the sense of the passage; all the context proves this.
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of old. Heb. from afar. I have.
Deuteronomy 7:7-9 The LORD did not set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people...
Deuteronomy 10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people...
Deuteronomy 33:3,26 Yes, he loved the people; all his saints are in your hand: and they sat down at your feet; every one shall receive of your words...
Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Malachi 1:2 I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? said the LORD...
Romans 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
an.
Psalm 103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on them that fear him, and his righteousness to children's children;
Isaiah 45:17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
Isaiah 54:8,9 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you...
Romans 11:28,29 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes...
2 Thessalonians 2:13-16 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord...
2 Timothy 1:9 Who has saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace...
with loving-kindness have I drawn. or have I extended loving kindness unto.
Songs 1:4 Draw me, we will run after you: the king has brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in you...
Hosea 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws...
John 6:44,45 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day...
Romans 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified...
Ephesians 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ...
Ephesians 2:4,5 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us...
Titus 3:3-6 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy...
James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...
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