Jeremiah 22:27

27 You will long to see this country again, but you will never 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 give you to people you are afraid of, people who want to kill you. I will give you to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his soldiers.

26 I am going to force you and your mother into exile. You will go to a country where neither of you was born, and both of you will die there.

27 You will long to see this country again, but you will never return."

28 I said, "Has King Jehoiachin become like a broken jar that is thrown away and that no one wants? Is that why he and his children have been taken into exile to a land they know nothing about?"

29 O land, land, land! Listen to what the Lord has said: