Jeremiah 31:6

For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
be	יֶשׁ yesh-	H3426	there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be · cardinal number, both genders singular construct
day	י֔וֹם Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
watchmen	נֹצְרִ֖ים no.tze.Rim	H5341	to guard · verb, qal active participle, masculine plural absolute
mount	בְּהַ֣ר be.Har	H2022	a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figurative… · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
Ephraim	אֶפְרָ֑יִם 'ef.Ra.yim	H669	Ephrajim · proper noun, a man's name
cry	קָרְא֥וּ ka.re.'U	H7121	to call out to (i.e. properly · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
Arise	ק֚וּמוּ Ku.mu	H6965	to rise (in various applications · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
up	וְנַעֲלֶ֣ה ve.na.'a.Leh	H5927	to ascend · conjunction + verb, qal, 1st person common plural
Zion	צִיּ֔וֹן tzi.Yon	H6726	Tsijon (as a permanent capital) · proper noun, a place name
LORD	יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
God	אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ 'e.lo.Hei.nu	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix

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Cross-references

Jeremiah 50:4-5 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weepi…
Isaiah 2:2-4 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shal…
Isaiah 52:7-8 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good,…
Jeremiah 50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim…
Micah 4:1-3 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and…
Zechariah 8:20-23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
2 Chronicles 13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
2 Chronicles 30:5-11 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the pass…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 31:1-9

God here assures his people, I. That he will again take them into a covenant relation to himself, from which they seemed to be cut off. At the same time, when God's anger breaks out against the wicked (Jer 30:24), his own people shall be owned by him as the children of his love: I will be the God (that is, I will show myself to be the God) of all the families of Israel (Jer 31:1), - not of the two tribes only, but of all the tribes, - not of the house of Aaron only, and the families of Levi, but of all their families; not only their state in general, but their particular families, and the interests of them, shall have the benefit of a special relation to God. Note, The families of good peopl…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 31:6

The watchmen stationed on eminences (types of the preachers of the gospel), shall summon the ten tribes to go up to the annual feasts at Jerusalem ("Zion"), as they used to do before the revolt and the setting up of the idol calves at Dan and Beer-sheba (Eze 37:21-22). Mount Ephraim--not one single mountain, but the whole mountainous region of the ten tribes. our God--from whom we formerly revolted, but who is now our God. An earnest of that good time to come is given in the partial success of the gospel in its first preaching in Samaria (John 4:1-42; Acts 8:5-25).

John Gill on Jeremiah 31:6

For there shall be a day,.... The whole Gospel dispensation is "a day", made so by the bright rising of the sun of righteousness; here it seems to design some certain fixed period of time in that dispensation, when the light of the Gospel will break out most gloriously, and it will be a clear day; as it will be when the Jews will be converted: that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim; the same with the mountains of Samaria; for Samaria was the head or metropolis of Ephraim, Isaiah 7:9; and these are the watchmen that kept the vines there, Jeremiah 31:5; for the allusion is not to watchmen of states and cities, but to watchers of vineyards, and to such the ministers of the Gospel are compare…

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The Church Fathers

(Verse 6) For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on mount Ephraim shall call to the shepherds: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to our Lord God. Then it was the day of the Lord, on which the custodians of the Apostolic faith, and apostolic men on the mountain of Samaria, and on the mountain of Ephraim, of which one signifies guardianship, the other abundance. But what do the custodians of Samaria say, or rather, what do they cry out on the mountain of Ephraim? Arise, you who lie low, abandon lowly things, despise the victims of sacrifice. Let the broken spirit be a sacrifice to the Lord (Psalm 50). Let us ascend to Zion, that is, to the Church, where there is the vision and sight of God. And when we are in Zion, or rather when we ascend to it, let us together ascend to our Lord God.
— Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah

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Dictionary and topics

Ephraim, Mount — The central mountainous district of Palestine occupied by the tribe of Ephraim (Josh. 17:15; 19:50; 20:7), extending from Bethel to the plain of Jezreel. In Joshua’s time (Josh. 17:18) these hills…
Access To God · Urge others to seek — Urge others to seek
Watchman · On towers — On towers
Zion · worship — worship

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Jeremiah 31:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 31:1-9

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 31:6

John Gill on Jeremiah 31:6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Jeremiah 31:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 31:1-9

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 31:6

John Gill on Jeremiah 31:6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Jeremiah 31:6

Keil & Delitzsch on Jeremiah 31:1-6

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Jeremiah 31:6

Rashi on Jeremiah 31:6