English Standard Version
Jeremiah 22:27
27But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return."
Jeremiah 22:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
- New International Version (NIV)You will never come back to the land you long to return to.”
- New King James Version (NKJV)But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You will never again return to the land you yearn for.
Context of Jeremiah 22:27
25and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return." 28Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know? 29O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!
Read all of Jeremiah 22Jeremiah 22:27 word by word
וְעַל־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־הֵ֛ם מְנַשְּׂאִ֥ים אֶת־נַפְשָׁ֖ם לָשׁ֣וּב שָׁ֑ם שָׁ֖מָּה לֹ֥א יָשֽׁוּבוּ׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 22:27
- Jeremiah 22:11For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: "He shall return here no more,
- Jeremiah 44:14so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, except some fugitives."
- Jeremiah 52:31And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
- 2 Kings 25:27And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.
- Psalms 86:4Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 22:27
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-30Verses 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 25-27Young King Jehoiachin feared the Babylonians would kill him, but they exiled him instead.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. they--Coniah and his mother. He passes from the second person (Jr 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" (Jr 44:14; Psa 24:4; 25:1). Judea was the land which they in Babylon should pine after in vain.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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