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Repentance at the Scene of Sin
Commentators highlight the profound symbolism of Israel weeping on the "high places." These were the very locations where they had committed idolatry and forgotten God. Now, these sites of rebellion are transformed into places of heartfelt repentance, showing a complete turning back to God in the very space where they had turned away.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 3:21
18th Century
Theologian
Upon the high places - Upon those bare table-lands, which previously had been the scene of Israel’s idolatries (Jeremiah 3:2). T…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 3:21
19th Century
Bishop
A voice was heard. —Yes, the guilty wife was there, but she was also penitent. The “high places” which had been the scene of the g…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 3:19–22
19th Century
Preacher
And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father and shalt not turn away from me. Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have y…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 3:21
16th Century
Theologian
What I have stated now becomes more evident—that the case of the Israelites is here set before the Jews, so that the perverse, whom God had spared,…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 3:21
17th Century
Pastor
A voice was heard upon the high places
And so might be heard afar off; it shows that the repentance and confession o…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 3:21–25
17th Century
Minister
Sin is turning aside to crooked ways. And forgetting the Lord our God is at the bottom of all sin. By sin we bring ourselves into trouble. The prom…