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Jeremiah 12:15
15But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country.
Jeremiah 12:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land.
- New Living Translation (NLT)But afterward I will return and have compassion on all of them. I will bring them home to their own lands again, each nation to its own possession.
Context of Jeremiah 12:15
13They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing. They will bear the shame of their harvest because of the Lord’s fierce anger.” 14This is what the Lord says: “As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their lands and I will uproot the people of Judah from among them. But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. 16And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives’—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among my people. 17But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,” declares the Lord.
Read all of Jeremiah 12Jeremiah 12:15 word by word
וְהָיָ֗ה אַֽחֲרֵי֙ נָתְשִׁ֣י אוֹתָ֔ם אָשׁ֖וּב וְרִֽחַמְתִּ֑ים וַהֲשִׁבֹתִ֛ים אִ֥ישׁ לְנַחֲלָת֖וֹ וְאִ֥ישׁ לְאַרְצֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And it shall come to pass, afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
- that I have plucked them outנָתַשׁnâthash · to uprootH5428
- I will returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: againH7725
- and have compassionרָחַםrâcham · to have compassionH7355
- every manאִישׁ'îysh · man: anyoneH376
- to his heritageנַחֲלָהnachălâh · inheritanceH5159
- to his landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
Cross-references for Jeremiah 12:15
- Jeremiah 48:47“Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in days to come,” declares the Lord. Here ends the judgment on Moab.
- Jeremiah 49:6“Yet afterward, I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites,” declares the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 30:3then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.
- Isaiah 23:17At the end of seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
- Numbers 32:18We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has received their inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 3:20until the Lord gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the Lord your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.”
Commentaries on Jeremiah 12:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15I will return, and have compassion on them - This is a promise of restoration from the captivity, and an intimation also that some of their enemies would turn to the true God with them; learn the ways of his people; that is, would abjure idols, and take Jehovah for their God; and be built in the midst of his people, that is, Jew and Gentile forming one Church of the Most High.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-17Verses 14-17 The Lord would plead the cause of his people against their evil neighbours. Yet he would afterwards show mercy to those nations, when they should learn true religion. This seems to look forward to the times when the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in. Those who would have their lot with God's people, and a last end like theirs, must learn their ways, and walk in them.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15I will...have compassion on them: Even other nations, no matter how wicked, can recover after facing disaster.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1714-17. Prophecy as to the surrounding nations, the Syrians, Ammonites, &c., who helped forward Judah's calamity: they shall share her fall; and, on their conversion, they shall share with her in the future restoration. This is a brief anticipation of the predictions in the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth chapters. touch--(Zec 2:8). pluck them out ... pluck out ... Judah--(Compare end of Jr 12:16). During the thirteen years that the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 12
- 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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