Jeremiah 31:17
Good News Translation
There is hope for your future; your children will come back home. I, the LORD, have spoken.

New Revised Standard Version
there is hope for your future, says the LORD: your children shall come back to their own country.

Contemporary English Version
So don't lose hope. I, the LORD, have spoken.

New American Bible
There is hope for your future—oracle of the LORD— your children shall return to their own territory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the children shall return to their own borders.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the children shall return to their own borders.

Jeremiah 29:11-16 For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and patience. . . .

Jeremiah 46:27,28 And thou my servant Jacob, fear not and be not thou dismayed, O Israel: for behold I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed out of the land of thy captivity: and Jacob shall return and be at rest, and prosper: and there shall be none to terrify him. . . .

Psalm 102:13,14 Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come. . . .

Isaiah 6:13 And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.

Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

Lamentations 3:18,21,26 Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 37:11-14,25 And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off. . . .

Ezekiel 39:28 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I caused them to be carried away among the nations; and I have gathered them together unto their own land, and have not left any of them there.

Hosea 2:15 And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

Hosea 3:5 And after this the children of Israel shall return and shall seek the Lord, their God, and David, their king: and they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness, in the last days.

Amos 9:8,9 Are not you as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord? did not I bring up Israel, out of the land of Egypt: and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene? . . .

Matthew 24:22 And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.

Romans 11:23-26 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. . . .

Context
Mourning Turned to Joy
16Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thy eyes tears: for there is a reward for thy work, saith the Lord: and they shall return out of the land of the enemy. 17And there is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the children shall return to their own borders.18Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and patience.

Lamentations 3:29
Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Jeremiah 31:16
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