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Jeremiah 31:17

HopeThe future and plansComfortParents and children

15 This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

16 This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.

So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.

18 I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

19 After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

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BSB
So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
KJV
And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
WEB
There is hope for your latter end,” says the LORD. “Your children will come again to their own territory.
ASV
And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and [thy] children shall come again to their own border.
DARBY
And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah, and thy children shall come again to their own border.
BLB
And there is hope for your future, a declaration of YHWH, and [your] children will return to their own border.
ÅB
Og det er håp for din fremtid, sier Herren, og barna skal vende tilbake til sitt land.
OTB
"Så det er håp for din fremtid," sier Herren. "Dine barn skal vende tilbake til sitt eget land."
B1930
Og det er håp for din fremtid, sier Herren, og barna skal vende tilbake til sitt land.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Lamentations 3:21

    Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

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  • Hosea 3:5

    Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.

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  • Lamentations 3:26

    It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

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  • Hosea 2:15

    There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

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  • Jeremiah 29:11–16

    For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

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  • Lamentations 3:18

    So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

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  • Romans 11:23–26

    And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

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  • Ezekiel 37:25

    They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

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