Jeremiah 31:17

Yea there is hope for thy future Declareth Yahweh,—And thy sons shall return to their own boundary.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

In Context

16Thus, saith Yahweh—Restrain thy voice from weeping, And thine eyes from tears,—For there is a reward for thy labour, Declareth Yahweh, So they shall return from the land of the enemy:

18I have, heard, Ephraim bemoaning himself, Thou hast chastised me and I have been chastised, Like a bullock, not broken in, Suffer me to return that I may return, For thou, art Yahweh my God.

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Cross References

Psalms 102:13Thou, wilt arise, wilt have compassion upon Zion, Surely it is time to favour her, Surely the time appointed, hath come;

Isaiah 11:11And it shall come to pass in that day, That My Lord will again a second time set his hand, to possess himself of the remnant of his people,—who shall be left—from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Ethiopia and from Elam and from Shinar and from Hamath and from the Coastlands of the sea;

Jeremiah 29:14And I will be found of you, Declareth Yahweh, And will turn back your captivity, And will gather you out of all the nations and out of all the places whither I have driven you, Declareth Yahweh, And will bring you back into the place whence I had caused you to be carried away captive:

Lamentations 3:18And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.

Lamentations 3:26Good it is—both to wait and to be silent, for the deliverance of Yahweh;

Ezekiel 37:21Therefore speak thou unto them Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, Lo! I myself, am going to take the sons of Israel, from among the nations whither they have gone,— And I will gather them from every side, And will bring them in upon their own soil;

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 31:11-18

Restoration of Israel; Promises to Israel. ( b. c. 594.) 10 Hear the word of the Lord , O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord , for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the… Read the whole commentary →

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