Jeremiah 30:20
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New International Version (©2011)
Their children will be as in days of old, and their community will be established before me; I will punish all who oppress them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Their children will prosper as they did long ago. I will establish them as a nation before me, and I will punish anyone who hurts them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Their children also will be as formerly, And their congregation shall be established before Me; And I will punish all their oppressors.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
His children will be as in past days; his congregation will be established in My presence. I will punish all his oppressors.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Their children will be as they were before, and their congregation will be established before me. I'll punish all who oppress them.

NET Bible (©2006)
The descendants of Jacob will enjoy their former privileges. Their community will be reestablished in my favor and I will punish all who try to oppress them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Their children will be like they were long ago. Their community will be established in my presence, and I will punish everyone who oppresses them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

American King James Version
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

American Standard Version
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all that oppress them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And their children shall be as from the beginning, and their assembly be permanent before me : and I will against all that afflict them.

Darby Bible Translation
And their sons shall be as aforetime; and their assembly shall be established before me; and I will punish all that oppress them.

English Revised Version
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Their children also shall be as in former time, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

World English Bible
Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.

Young's Literal Translation
And his sons have been as aforetime, And his company before Me is established, And I have seen after all his oppressors.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:18-24 We have here further intimations of the favour of God for them after the days of their calamity have expired. The proper work and office of Christ, as Mediator, is to draw near unto God, for us, as the High Priest of our profession. His own undertaking, in compliance with his Father's will, and in compassion to fallen man, engaged him. Jesus Christ was, in all this, truly wonderful. They shall be taken again into covenant with the Lord, according to the covenant made with their fathers. I will be your God: it is his good-will to us, which is the summary of that part of the covenant. The wrath of God against the wicked is very terrible, like a whirlwind. The purposes of his wrath, as well as the purposes of his love, will all be fulfilled. God will comfort all that turn to him; but those who approach him must have their hearts engaged to do it with reverence, devotion, and faith. How will they escape who neglect so great salvation?

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 20. - Their children; rather, his children; i.e. the "children of Israel."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Their children also shall be as aforetime,.... In the streets of Jerusalem, numerous and free; no more in a strange land, or subject to others, Zechariah 8:5; and educated in a religious manner. Some think it refers to the times of the patriarchs before the law was given; and that the meaning is, that the law being abrogated, and they now sensible of it, shall live without it, as their forefathers did. It may be understood of the church's children in a spiritual sense; that great numbers should be born again in her as formerly, who shall profess the Christian religion, and behave according to it:

and their congregation shall be established before me; the church, consisting of them; or their church state shall be settled and confirmed, and no more be destroyed, as it formerly was:

and I will punish all that oppress them; or rather, have oppressed them; all the antichristian nations, who will now suffer the wrath of God; and after this there will be no more oppressors and persecutors of the church of God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

20. as aforetime—as flourishing as in the time of David.

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Restoration of Jacob
18Thus said the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built on her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. 19And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 20Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. …

Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.
Zechariah 8:5 The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there."
Zechariah 10:8 I will signal for them and gather them in. Surely I will redeem them; they will be as numerous as before.