Jeremías 30:17

17 "Porque yo te devolveré la salud, y te sanaré de tus heridas"declara el SEÑOR "porque te han llamado desechada, diciendo: "Esta es Sion, nadie se preocupa por ella.'"

Jeremías 30:17 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 30:17

For I will restore health to thee
That is, bring thee into a comfortable and prosperous condition, both in church and state, with respect to things religions and civil: as the afflictions and distresses of the Jewish nation are expressed by sickness, wounds, and bruises; so their prosperity, both spiritual and temporal, is signified by health. The words may be rendered, "I will cause length to ascend unto thee"; or a long plaster ^F26; or rather, that which has been long looked for, and long in coming, prosperity; or else, that whereas they were before bowed down with afflictions and sorrows, now they should be as a man in an erect posture, that rises up in his full height and length, being in a robust and healthful state; and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord;
pardon their sins, remove their afflictions, and bring them into a comfortable situation, into a Gospel church state, and into their own land: because they called thee an outcast;
as the Jews now are, cast out of their own land, rejected from being the people of God; so they are reckoned by the nations among whom they are: [saying], this [is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after:
after their good, either temporal or spiritual; despised by most, pitied and prayed for by few; and fewer still they are that seek after, and are solicitous about, or take any methods, or make use of any means, for their conversion; but though man does not, God will, and his work will appear the more manifest.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Kl hkra hlea) "adducam tibi emplastrum longum", so some in Gataker; "faciam ut ad justam constitutionem assurgas", Junius & Tremellius; "ut assurgat sanitas tibi", Piscator; "nam faciam ut ascendat tibi proceritas", Cocceius.

Jeremías 30:17 In-Context

15 "¿Por qué gritas a causa de tu quebranto? Tu dolor es incurable. Por lo grande de tu iniquidad y lo numeroso de tus pecados, te he hecho esto.

16 "Por tanto, todos los que te devoran serán devorados, y todos tus adversarios, todos ellos, irán al cautiverio; todos los que te saquean serán saqueados, y a todos los que te despojan los daré al despojo.

17 "Porque yo te devolveré la salud, y te sanaré de tus heridas"declara el SEÑOR "porque te han llamado desechada, diciendo: "Esta es Sion, nadie se preocupa por ella.'"

18 Así dice el SEÑOR: "He aquí, restauraré el bienestar de las tiendas de Jacob, y tendré misericordia de sus moradas; será reedificada la ciudad sobre sus ruinas, y el palacio se asentará como estaba.

19 "Saldrá de ellos canto de acción de gracias y voz de los que se divierten; los multiplicaré y no disminuirán, los honraré y no serán menospreciados.