Amsal 25:25

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Seperti air sejuk bagi jiwa yang dahaga, demikianlah kabar baik dari negeri yang jauh.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Seperti air sejuk bagi jiwa yang dahaga, demikianlah kabar baik dari negeri yang jauh.

Contextual Overview

²⁵ Good newes from a straunge countrey, are as colde water to a thirstie soule.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cold: Genesis 21:16-19, Exodus 17:2, Exodus 17:3, Exodus 17:6, Judges 15:18, Judges 15:19, 2 Samuel 23:15, Psalms 42:1, Psalms 42:2, Psalms 63:1, Isaiah 55:1, Jeremiah 18:14, John 7:37, Revelation 21:6, Revelation 22:17

so: Proverbs 15:30, Isaiah 52:7, Nahum 1:15, Luke 2:10, Luke 2:11, Romans 10:15, 1 Timothy 1:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:20 - told Genesis 24:56 - Hinder 2 Samuel 18:27 - He is a good Proverbs 25:13 - General 1 Corinthians 16:18 - they 1 Thessalonians 3:6 - and brought

Cross-References

Genesis 27:11
Then said Iacob to Rebecca his mother: Beholde, Esau my brother is a heary man, and I am smoothe:

Genesis 27:16
And she put the skynnes of the kiddes vpon his handes, and vpon the smoothe of his necke.

Genesis 27:23
And he knewe him not, because his handes were heary as his brother Esaus handes: and so he blessed hym.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[As] cold waters to a thirsty soul,.... Water is naturally cold; and is by classic writers expressed by "cold" itself c, and is very refreshing to one athirst through heat: or, "to a weary soul" d; to one wearied with labour; or to a traveller weary with travelling, especially in hot countries, as in the deserts of Arabia, or in places where it is rare to meet with a brook, stream, or fountain of water; which, when he does, it is exceeding pleasant and agreeable to him;

so [is] good news from a far country; so acceptable is it to hear from a friend in a distant part of the world, and particularly to hear good news of him. Such is the Gospel; it is good news, and glad tidings of good things; it brings the good news of the grace, and favour, and good will of God to men; of his appointment and provision of a Saviour for them; of the incarnation of Christ; of salvation being wrought out by him for the chief of sinners, which is free, full, and for ever; and of peace, pardon, righteousness, and eternal life, through him, And this comes "from a far country"; from heaven, the better country than Canaan, which was a type of it, or any country in this world, and which is afar from hence; the Gospel comes from God in heaven, and it is a report concerning that; it is good news to saints, of an estate they have there, an inheritance, a house, a city and kingdom prepared for them there: this news is brought by the prophets of the Old Testament, who diligently inquired of salvation by Christ; by the angels at Christ's incarnation; by John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ; by Christ himself, who was anointed to preach good tidings to the meek; and by his apostles, and all the faithful ministers of the word: and the message they bring is good news; not to carnal and self-righteous persons, but to sensible sinners; and to them it is as cold waters to a weary or thirsty soul; it assuages the heat of the law, and the wrath that works in the conscience; it quenches the thirst of carnal things, and after a man's own righteousness; it revives and refreshes his weary drooping spirits, and fills him with a joy unspeakable and full of glory; as Jacob's spirits were revived on hearing the good news of Joseph, Genesis 45:26.

c "Perfundit gelida", Horat. Sermon. l. 2. Sat. 7. v. 91. d עיפה "lassa", Montanus; "lasso", Tigurine version, so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The craving of wanderers for news from the home that they have left is as a consuming thirst, the news that quenches it as a refreshing fountain.