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Mourning Turned to Joy

Jeremiah 31:17

In 10 translations

BSB
So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
KJV
And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
WEB
There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh. “Your children will come again to their own territory.
ASV
And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and thy children shall come again to their own border.
LSV
And there is hope for your latter end,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “And the sons have turned back [to] their border.
YLT
And there is hope for thy latter end, An affirmation of Jehovah, And the sons have turned back [to] their border.
DBY
And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah, and thy children shall come again to their own border.
DRC
And here is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the children shall return to their own borders.
GNV
And there is hope in thine ende, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come againe to their owne borders.
JPS
And there is hope for thy future, saith the LORD; and thy children shall return to their own border.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְיֵשׁ־תִּקְוָ֥ה לְאַחֲרִיתֵ֖ךְ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וְשָׁ֥בוּ בָנִ֖ים לִגְבוּלָֽם׃

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Lamentations 3:21Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
  • Hosea 3:5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
  • Lamentations 3:26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
  • Hosea 2:15There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
  • Jeremiah 29:11–16For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will…
  • Lamentations 3:18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
  • Romans 11:23–26And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how…
  • Matthew 24:22If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.
  • Ezekiel 37:25They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.
  • Isaiah 11:11–16On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. He…
  • Isaiah 6:13And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
  • Jeremiah 46:27–28But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and…
  • Psalms 102:13–14You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor— the appointed time has come. For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
  • Ezekiel 37:11–14Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’ Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what…
  • Amos 9:8–9Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD. “For surely I will give the command,…
  • Ezekiel 39:28Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, when I regather them to their own land, not leaving any of them behind after their exile among the nations.

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  • 38:17 in some Bibles

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