Jeremiah 22:27

27 But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.

Jeremiah 22:27 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 22:27

But to the land whereunto they desire to return
Or, "lift up their soul to return" ^F3: either by making supplication to God, for it, ( Psalms 25:1 ) ; or buoying up themselves with vain hopes, founded upon the declarations of the false prophets, that they should return; and to which no doubt they had a natural desire, and comforted themselves with the hopes of it; but all in vain: thither shall they not return;
for they were to die, as before predicted, in another country, as they did, and never saw their own any more.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (Mv bwvl Mvpn ta Myavnm) "elevant animam suam", Vatablus, Pagninus; "tollunt animam suam ut revertantlur eo", Schmidt.

Jeremiah 22:27 In-Context

25 And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans.

26 I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you.

27 But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.

28 Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?

29 O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!