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Jeremiah 31:26

After hearing that, I, Jeremiah, woke up and looked around. My sleep was very pleasant.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Sleep;   Sleep-Wakefulness;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Backsliding;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prophecy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death;   Ezekiel;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.
Hebrew Names Version
On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
King James Version
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
English Standard Version
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
New American Standard Bible
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep had been pleasant to me.
New Century Version
After hearing that, I, Jeremiah, woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very pleasant.
Amplified Bible
At this I (Jeremiah) awoke and looked, and my [trancelike] sleep was sweet [in the assurance it gave] to me.
World English Bible
On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore I awaked and behelde, and my sleepe was sweete vnto me.
Legacy Standard Bible
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
Berean Standard Bible
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.
Contemporary English Version
and when they sleep, they will wake up refreshed.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Here, the days are coming," says Adonai , when I will sow the house of Isra'el and the house of Y'hudah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.
Darby Translation
—Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
George Lamsa Translation
This is why I awoke and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.
Good News Translation
So then, people will say, ‘I went to sleep and woke up refreshed.'
Lexham English Bible
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
Literal Translation
On this I awoke and looked up, and my sleep was sweet to me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When I herde this, I came agayne to myself, and mused, like as I had bene waked out of a swete slepe.
American Standard Version
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
Bible in Basic English
At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
King James Version (1611)
Upon this I awaked and beheld, and my sleepe was sweete vnto me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When I hearde this, I came agayne to my selfe, I sawe like as I had ben waked out of a sweete sleepe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Make ye him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing-stock.
English Revised Version
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Y am as reisid fro sleep, and Y siy; and my sleep was swete to me.
Update Bible Version
On this I awakened, and looked; and my sleep was sweet to me.
Webster's Bible Translation
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.
New English Translation
Then they will say, ‘Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep when I wake up and look around.'"
New King James Version
After this I awoke and looked around, and my sleep was sweet to me.
New Living Translation
At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very sweet.
New Life Bible
At this I woke up and looked, and my sleep was pleasing to me.
New Revised Standard
Thereupon I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Upon this, I awoke and considered, - And, my sleep, had been sweet to me!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I saw, and my sleep was sweet to me.
Revised Standard Version
Thereupon I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
Young's Literal Translation
On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.
THE MESSAGE
Just then I woke up and looked around—what a pleasant and satisfying sleep!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

Contextual Overview

18 I have heard Ephraim crying: ‘Lord, you punished me, and I learned my lesson. I was like a calf that was never trained. Please stop punishing me, and I will come back to you. You really are the Lord my God. 19 I wandered away from you. But I finally realized how wrong I was. So I changed my heart and life. I am ashamed and embarrassed about the foolish things I did when I was young.'" 20 The Lord says, "You know that Ephraim is my dear son. I love that child. Yes, I often criticized Ephraim, but I still think about him. I love him very much, and I really do want to comfort him. 21 "People of Israel, repair the road signs. Put up signs that show the way home. Watch the road. Remember the road you are leaving on. Israel, my bride, come home. Come back to your towns. 22 Unfaithful daughter, how long will you wander around? "The Lord has created something new in the land: A woman surrounding a man." 23 This is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: "I will again do good things for the people of Judah. I will bring back those who were taken away as prisoners. At that time the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: ‘May the Lord bless you, good home and holy mountain!' 24 "People in all the towns of Judah will live together in peace. Farmers and those who move around with their flocks will live peacefully together in Judah. 25 I will give rest and strength to those who are weak and tired." 26 After hearing that, I, Jeremiah, woke up and looked around. My sleep was very pleasant.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 127:2, Zechariah 4:1, Zechariah 4:2

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:6 - ye shall Judges 5:12 - Deborah 1 Kings 3:15 - awoke Proverbs 3:24 - and Ecclesiastes 5:12 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 2:24
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. In this way two people become one.
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What have you done?" She said, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? You killed your brother and the ground opened up to take his blood from your hands. Now his blood is shouting to me from the ground. So you will be cursed from this ground.
Genesis 12:18
Pharaoh called Abram and said to him, "You have done a very bad thing to me! Why didn't you tell me Sarai was your wife?
Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said, "You have done a bad thing to us. One of our men might have had sex with your wife. Then he would be guilty of a great sin."
Genesis 31:9
So God has taken the animals away from your father and has given them to me.
Genesis 31:10
"I had a dream during the time when the animals were mating. I saw that the only male goats that were mating were the ones with stripes and spots.
Genesis 31:16
God took all this wealth from our father, and now it belongs to us and our children. So you should do whatever God told you to do."
Genesis 31:36
Then Jacob became very angry and said, "What wrong have I done? What law have I broken? What right do you have to chase me and stop me?
Genesis 34:29
The brothers took everything those people owned. They even took their wives and children.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Upon this I awakened, and beheld,.... When or after he beheld or had seen the vision and prophecy concerning the incarnation of Christ, and the glory and happiness of his church and people in the latter day, he awoke; for it seems the prophecy contained in this and the preceding chapter was delivered to Jeremiah in a dream; who, when he had seen the vision, and upon the last words being spoken to him, awoke out of it:

and my sleep was sweet unto me; as it must needs be, to have so many gracious promises, and glorious prophecies, delivered to him in it. Some understand the words, that when he awoke out of sleep, he saw and considered with pleasure what had been made known to him; and then fell into a sweet sleep again, which was not usual with him. To which the Targum inclines,

"the prophet said, because of this good news of the days of consolation (that is, the days of the Messiah) that should come, I was raised up, and saw; again I slept, and my sleep was profitable to me.''

So Kimchi. Some interpret the words of Christ, and of his sleep in the grave.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet, seeming to himself to awake and look up in the midst of his sleep (whether ecstatic or not we cannot tell), rejoiced in a revelation so entirely consolatory, and unlike his usual message of woe.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 31:26. Upon this I awaked — It appears that the prophecy, commencing with Jeremiah 30:2 and ending with Jeremiah 31:25 of this chapter, was delivered to the prophet in a dream. Dahler supposes it to be a wish; that the prophet, though he could not hope to live to that time, might be permitted to awake up from his tomb; and, having seen this prosperity, would be content to return to his grave.


 
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