Jeremiah 22:27

27 But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.

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 hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

26 I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you die.

27 But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.

28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?

29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.