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Good News Translation

Jeremiah 31:26

So then, people will say, ‘I went to sleep and woke up refreshed.'

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
After hearing that, I, Jeremiah, woke up and looked around. My sleep was very pleasant.
George Lamsa Translation
This is why I awoke and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.
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 hear the people of Israel say in grief, ‘ Lord , we were like an untamed animal, but you taught us to obey. Bring us back; we are ready to return to you, the Lord our God. 19 We turned away from you, but soon we wanted to return. After you had punished us, we hung our heads in grief. We were ashamed and disgraced because we sinned when we were young.' 20 "Israel, you are my dearest child, the one I love best. Whenever I mention your name, I think of you with love. My heart goes out to you; I will be merciful. 21 Set up signs and mark the road; find again the way by which you left. Come back, people of Israel, come home to the towns you left. 22 How long will you hesitate, faithless people? I have created something new and different, as different as a woman protecting a man." 23 The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says, "When I restore the people to their land, they will once again say in the land of Judah and in its towns, ‘May the Lord bless the sacred hill of Jerusalem, the holy place where he lives.' 24 People will live in Judah and in all its towns, and there will be farmers, and shepherds with their flocks. 25 I will refresh those who are weary and will satisfy with food everyone who is weak from hunger. 26 So then, people will say, ‘I went to sleep and woke up refreshed.'

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 united with his wife, and they become one.
Genesis 3:13
The Lord God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."
Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "Why have you done this terrible thing? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground, like a voice calling for revenge.
Genesis 12:18
Then the king sent for Abram and asked him, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
Genesis 26:10
"What have you done to us?" Abimelech said. "One of my men might easily have slept with your wife, and you would have been responsible for our guilt."
Genesis 31:9
God has taken flocks away from your father and given them to me.
Genesis 31:10
"During the breeding season I had a dream, and I saw that the male goats that were mating were striped, spotted, and speckled.
Genesis 31:16
All this wealth which God has taken from our father belongs to us and to our children. Do whatever God has told you."
Genesis 31:36
Then Jacob lost his temper. "What crime have I committed?" he asked angrily. "What law have I broken that gives you the right to hunt me down?
Genesis 34:29
They took everything of value, captured all the women and children, and carried off everything in the houses.

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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