English Standard Version
Jeremiah 27:22
22They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the Lord. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place."
Jeremiah 27:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the Lord; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
- New International Version (NIV)‘They will be taken to Babylon and there they will remain until the day I come for them,’ declares the Lord. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’ ”
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I visit them,’ says the Lord. ‘Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.’ ”
- New Living Translation (NLT)‘They will all be carried away to Babylon and will stay there until I send for them,’ says the Lord. ‘Then I will bring them back to Jerusalem again.’”
Context of Jeremiah 27:22
20which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem— 21thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the Lord. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place."
Read all of Jeremiah 27Jeremiah 27:22 word by word
בָּבֶ֥לָה יוּבָ֖אוּ וְשָׁ֣מָּה יִֽהְי֑וּ עַ֠ד י֣וֹם פָּקְדִ֤י אֹתָם֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה וְהַֽעֲלִיתִים֙ וַהֲשִׁ֣יבֹתִ֔ים אֶל־הַמָּק֖וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- They shall be carriedבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): bringH935
- to Babylonבָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶלbâbel · BabylonH894
- and there shall they be until the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
- that I visitפָּקַדpâqad · to reckon: visitH6485
- them, saithנְאֻםne'ûm · utteranceH5002
- the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- then will I bringעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: establishH5927
- them up, and restoreשׁוּבshûb · to return: rescueH7725
- them to this placeמָקוֹםmâqôm mâqôm meqômâh meqômâh · placeH4725
Cross-references for Jeremiah 27:22
- Jeremiah 29:10"For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.
- Jeremiah 34:5You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, "Alas, lord!"' For I have spoken the word, declares the Lord."
- Jeremiah 52:17And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 24:13and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the Lord had foretold.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
- Daniel 5:1King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
- Jeremiah 25:11This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Jeremiah 32:5And he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the Lord. Though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed'?"
- 2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
- Ezra 1:1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
- Proverbs 21:30No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.
- Daniel 9:2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
- Ezra 1:7Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.
- Ezra 5:13However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.
- Ezra 7:9For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 27:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22They shall be carried to Babylon - Far from those already taken being brought back, those which now remain shall be carried thither, unless ye submit to the Chaldeans. They did not submit, and the prophecy was literally fulfilled; see Jeremiah 52:17-23; 2 Kings 25:13, 2 Chronicles 36:18.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 19-22Verses 19-22 Jeremiah assures them that the brazen vessels should go after the golden ones. All shall be carried to Babylon. But he concludes with a gracious promise, that the time would come when they should be brought back. Though the return of the prosperity of the church does not come in our time, we must not despair, for it will come in God's time.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22When Cyrus of Persia allowed the exiles to return in 538 BC, they brought the Temple furnishings back to Jerusalem (Ezra 1:7–11; 5:13–15).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. until ... I visit them--in wrath by Cyrus (Jr 32:5). In seventy years from the first carrying away of captives in Jehoiachin's reign (Jr 29:10; 2Ch 36:21). restore them--by the hand of Cyrus (Ezr 1:7). By Artaxerxes (Ezr 7:19).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 27
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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