Bible Strands
Jeremiah 31:17
So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD addresses the exiled northern tribes following a promise that their labor will be rewarded and their children will come back from enemy territory. This declaration interrupts a period of mourning to announce guaranteed restoration.
The words — The Hebrew תִּקְוָה (tikvah) means "hope" or "steadfast expectation," paired with אַחֲרִית (acharit) for "future," while שָׁבוּ (shavu) literally means "they will return." These terms ground the oracle in concrete territorial and generational restoration.
The thread — This pattern of waiting for divine hope and subsequent return runs through Lamentations 3:21 and 3:26, where quiet endurance yields expectation, and in Hosea 3:5, where Israel later seeks the LORD and returns. The motif links exile’s end to a broader scriptural cycle of discipline and restoration.
Why it lands — The text states that weeping must cease because Yahweh has already decreed a secured future and the physical return of the children. It requires the reader to align present posture with a declared outcome rather than current circumstances.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Cross-references
- Lamentations 3:21 Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
- Hosea 3:5 Afterward, 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 3:26 It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
- Hosea 2:15 There 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 For 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.
- Lamentations 3:18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
- Romans 11:23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
- Isaiah 11:11 On 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.
- Ezekiel 37:25 They 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.
- Matthew 24:22 If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.