Kommentar zu Jirmejahu 33:32

confined in the prison.

So said the Lord, the Maker thereof Who makes this.

Call Me and I will answer you to inform you of future events.

and strong things laid up in My heart to perform them.

that are demolished for the mounds To make mounds of them, mounds piled up high which the city dwellers build to ascend the mounds to wage war from upon them with the Chaldeans.

and for the sword To strengthen the wall against those who slay with the sword.

and to fill them with the corpses of the men And the houses that they demolished they make into graves for the corpses of those killed within the city.

and that which I have hidden, etc. So said the Lord: Behold, I will bring it, etc.

a greeting of peace a blessing (salud in O.F., salut in modern French), a greeting.

a dwelling of shepherds Heb. נְוֵה רֹעִים.

flocks shall again pass, etc. Israel will come and go under the hands of a king who walks at their head.

and this is the name that He shall call it – This is the name which God will call Jerusalem:

the Lord is our righteousness – God will make us righteous when she (Jerusalem) is reestablished.

There shall not be cut off permanently, but if it is discontinued, it will ultimately be reinstated.

for all time There shall not be cut off from them seed fit to offer up a burnt-offering or to burn a meal-offering.

If you break My covenant with the day If you can break My covenant that I formed with the day and with the night to be in their time, which I formed with Noah and his sons, “And day and night shall not cease” (Gen. 8:22).

The two families Viz. royalty and the priesthood.

and they make My people despise And with these words, they cause My people to despise being a nation to Me.

before them According to these words of theirs, that they teach them to say that the Holy One, blessed be He, will no longer return from His anger, and repentance will not avail them.

If not My covenant, etc. If it is possible that the covenant that I formed with day and night to be in their time should be abolished, and if it is possible for the statutes of heaven and earth to be abolished as though I had not placed them, also the seed of Jacob, etc. Our Sages, however, expounded it in regard to the covenant of the Torah and circumcision, to derive from here that because of them heaven and earth were created. But this Midrash does not fit the sequence of the verses.

Isaac (ישחק). Written with a שי״ן (sin) like with a צד״י (tzadi) because the two roots are equal in the matter, and the two letters are of one origin, and this is one of four times the appellation for Isaac is written with a sin.