Jeremiah 31:17 So there is hope for your descendants," declares the LORD. "Your children will return to their own land.

◄ Jeremiah 31:17 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
So there is hope for your descendants," declares the LORD. "Your children will return to their own land.

English Standard Version
There is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children shall come back to their own country.

New American Standard Bible
"There is hope for your future," declares the LORD, "And your children will return to their own territory.

King James Bible
And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There is hope for your future-- this is the LORD's declaration-- and your children will return to their own territory.

International Standard Version
There is hope for your future," declares the LORD. "Your children will return to their own territory."

American Standard Version
And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and thy children shall come again to their own border.

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

Darby Bible Translation
And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah, and thy children shall come again to their own border.

Young's Literal Translation
And there is hope for thy latter end, An affirmation of Jehovah, And the sons have turned back to their border.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

31:10-17 He that scattered Israel, knows where to find them. It is comfortable to observe the goodness of the Lord in the gifts of providence. But our souls are never valuable as gardens, unless watered with the dews of God's Spirit and grace. A precious promise follows, which will not have full accomplishment except in the heavenly Zion. Let them be satisfied of God's loving-kindness, and they will be satisfied with it, and desire no more to make them happy. Rachel is represented as rising from her grave, and refusing to be comforted, supposing her offspring rooted out. The murder of the children at Bethlehem, by Herod, Mt 2:16-18, in some degree fulfilled this prediction, but could not be its full meaning. If we have hope in the end, concerning an eternal inheritance, for ourselves and those belonging to us, all temporal afflictions may be borne, and will be for our good.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17. hope in … end—All thy calamities shall have a prosperous issue.