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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 22:27 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 22:27 |
King James |
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
they--Coniah and his mother. He passes from the second person (Jer 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" (Jer 44:14; Psa 24:4; Psa 25:1). Judea was the land which they in Babylon should pine after in vain. |
1 A Psalm of David. Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.