Jeremiah 31:17 meaning and explanation

So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.

Jeremiah 31:17, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah 31 speaks comfort to Judah after the trauma of exile, and verse 17 sits inside a promise addressed to Rachel, the ancestral mother whose weeping at Ramah pictures the grief of a people whose children were taken. The LORD answers that grief directly: the mourning will not be the final word.

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