Jeremiah 22:27

27 But they shall not return to the land to which they long to return.

Jeremiah 22:27 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 22:27

But to the land whereunto they desire to return
Or, "lift up their soul to return" ^F3: either by making supplication to God, for it, ( Psalms 25:1 ) ; or buoying up themselves with vain hopes, founded upon the declarations of the false prophets, that they should return; and to which no doubt they had a natural desire, and comforted themselves with the hopes of it; but all in vain: thither shall they not return;
for they were to die, as before predicted, in another country, as they did, and never saw their own any more.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (Mv bwvl Mvpn ta Myavnm) "elevant animam suam", Vatablus, Pagninus; "tollunt animam suam ut revertantlur eo", Schmidt.

Jeremiah 22:27 In-Context

25 and give you into the hands of those who seek your life, into the hands of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hands of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon and into the hands of the Chaldeans.

26 I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.

27 But they shall not return to the land to which they long to return.

28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken pot, a vessel no one wants? Why are he and his offspring hurled out and cast away in a land that they do not know?

29 O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!