Jeremiah 31:17 - Easy To Read Version Israel, there is hope for you.”\par This message is from the Lord.\par “Your children will come back\par to their own land.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And there is hope for your future, says the Lord; your children shall come back to their own country. American Standard Version (1901) And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and thy children shall come again to their own border. Common English Bible There’s hope for your future, declares the LORD. Your children will return home! Catholic Public Domain Version And there is hope for your very end, says the Lord. And the sons will return to their own borders. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And here is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the children shall return to their own borders. |
But a tenth of the people will be allowed to stay in the land. These people will return \{to the Lord\} even though they were to be destroyed. These people will be like an oak tree. When the tree is chopped down, a stump is left. This stump (the people remaining) is a very special seed.
I said to myself,\par “I no longer have any hope\par that the Lord will help me.”\par
But then I think of something else,\par then I have hope. What I think of is this:\par
It is good for a person to wait quietly\par for the Lord to save him.\par
That person should bow to the Lord\par with his face to the ground.\par Maybe there is still hope.\par
Tell the people that the Lord and Master says these things: ‘I will take the people of Israel from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around, and I will bring them into their own land.
They will live on the land that I gave to my servant Jacob. Your ancestors {\cf2\super [297]} lived in that place. And my people will live there. They and their children, and their grandchildren will live there forever. And David my servant will be their leader forever.
They will know that I am the Lord their God. Why? Because I made them to leave their homes and go as prisoners to other countries. And then I gathered them together and brought them back to their own land.
There I will give her fields of grapes. I will give her Achor Valley as a doorway of hope. Then she will answer like the time she came out of the land of Egypt.”
After this the people of Israel will come back. Then they will look for the Lord their God, and for David their king. In the last days, they will come to honor the Lord and his goodness.
Prisoners, go home!\par Now you have something to hope for.\par I am telling you now,\par I am coming back to you!\par
But God has decided to make that terrible time short. If that time were not made short, then no person would continue living. But God will make that time short to help the people he has chosen.