Jeremiah 22:27
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New International Version (©2011)
You will never come back to the land you long to return to."

New Living Translation (©2007)
You will never again return to the land you yearn for.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But as for the land to which they desire to return, they will not return to it.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They will never return to the land they long to return to."

International Standard Version (©2012)
As for the land to which you want to return, you won't return there!

NET Bible (©2006)
You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You will want to return to this land, but you won't be allowed to come home."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But to the land to which they desire to return, there shall they not return.

American King James Version
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

American Standard Version
But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up their mind to return thither.

Darby Bible Translation
And into the land whereunto they lift up their souls to return, thither shall they not return.

English Revised Version
But to the land whereunto their soul longeth to return, thither shall they not return.

Webster's Bible Translation
But to the land to which they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

World English Bible
But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.

Young's Literal Translation
And to the land whither they are lifting up their soul to return, Thither they do not return.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:20-30 The Jewish state is described under a threefold character. Very haughty in a day of peace and safety. Very fearful on alarm of trouble. Very much cast down under pressure of trouble. Many never are ashamed of their sins till brought by them to the last extremity. The king shall close his days in bondage. Those that think themselves as signets on God's right hand, must not be secure, but fear lest they should be plucked thence. The Jewish king and his family shall be carried to Babylon. We know where we were born, but where we shall die we know not; it is enough that our God knows. Let it be our care that we die in Christ, then it will be well with us wherever we die, thought it may be in a far country. The Jewish king shall be despised. Time was when he was delighted in; but all those in whom God has no pleasure, some time or other, will be so lowered, that men will have no pleasure in them. Whoever are childless, it is the Lord that writes them so; and those who take no care to do good in their days, cannot expect to prosper. How little is earthly grandeur to be depended upon, or flourishing families to be rejoiced in! But those who hear the voice of Christ, and follow him, have eternal life, and shall never perish, neither shall any enemy pluck them out of his almighty hands.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But to the land whereunto they desire to return,.... Or, "lift up their soul to return" (c): either by making supplication to God, for it, Psalm 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.

(c) "elevant animam suam", Vatablus, Pagninus; "tollunt animam suam ut revertantlur eo", Schmidt.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

27. they—Coniah and his mother. He passes from the second person (Jer 22:26) to the third person here, to express alienation. The king is as it were put out of sight, as if unworthy of being spoken with directly.

desire—literally, "lift up their soul" (Jer 44:14; Ps 24:4; 25:1). Judea was the land which they in Babylon should pine after in vain.

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A Warning for Jehoiachin
…26And I will cast you out, and your mother that bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you die. 27But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. 28Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? …

Jeremiah 22:26 I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another country, where neither of you was born, and there you both will die.
Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot, an object no one wants? Why will he and his children be hurled out, cast into a land they do not know?
Jeremiah 28:4 I will also bring back to this place Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and all the other exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,' declares the LORD, 'for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'"
Jeremiah 42:18 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: 'As my anger and wrath have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach; you will never see this place again.'
Jeremiah 44:14 None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives."