Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 31:28

28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them to pluck up, and to break down and to throw down, and to destroy and to afflict; so will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith the LORD.

Nothing can produce in God a change of Counsels, Purposes and Decrees, for he is not as man that he should lie or repent, he is the God that changeth not, but mens Reformation m[illegible: 1 letter]y produce in him a change of Providential dispensations. God is here set out as a Man that is vindicative, and his vindicative nature prompts him to watch all opportunities of doing hurt, to the person against whom he is set. There is no fury nor revenge in God, but what he doth is justice; but here an angry God is set out, as taking all opportunities to punish sinners as if he had watched for them, whereas he never slumbreth nor sleepeth; But the time of their reformation, and his favour being come, God promiseth to be as diligent to do them good, which is here exprest by the metaphorical notions of planting and building them; as he was before to execute his justice upon them.

Marginal references: chap. 1.10.