John Trapp on Jeremiah 31:22

Ver. 22. How long wilt thou go about?] Hunting after humane helps, and (refuſing to ſet thy heart on the right ſtraight way, ver. 21.) fetch a compaſſe, to thy loſſe of time and labour?

O thou backſliding daughter] Who waſt whilom O virgin of Iſrael, ver. 21.

For the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth] Or, will create: he is even about it.

Sicut hoſtis circundat hoſtem. A woman ſhall compaſſe a man] i. e. Say ſome, the Jewes (who are now looked upon as weak women, and may ſay Imbelles damae, quid niſi turba ſumus?) ſhall compaſſe about, and conquer the Chaldees thoſe men of might. Or, as others ſenſe it, The Church Chriſtian, how weak ſoever at firſt it may ſeem, and inconſiderable, yet ſhall be able, by the confeſſion of her faith, to reſiſt her moſt potent perſecutours, and by faith to overcome them, 1 Joh. 5.4. as ſhe did in the Apoſtles, Act. 4. & 5. in the noble army of Martyrs, and Confeſſours. The text is generally underſtood of Chriſts wonderful conception in the womb of his Virgin-mother.