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New Living Translation

Jeremiah 31:25

For I have given rest to the weary and joy to the sorrowing."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Joy;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Backsliding;   Soul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gift, Giving;   Jeremiah;   Soul;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death;   Ezekiel;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Soul;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for I satisfy the thirsty person and feed all those who are weak.”
Hebrew Names Version
For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.
King James Version
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
English Standard Version
For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish."
New American Standard Bible
"For I give plenty of water to the weary ones, and refresh everyone who languishes."
New Century Version
I will give rest and strength to those who are weak and tired."
Amplified Bible
"For I [fully] satisfy the weary soul, and I replenish every languishing and sorrowful person."
World English Bible
For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For I haue saciate the wearie soule, and I haue replenished euery sorowfull soule.
Legacy Standard Bible
For I satisfy the weary soul and fill up every soul who wastes away."
Berean Standard Bible
for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak."
Contemporary English Version
Those who feel tired and worn out will find new life and energy,
Complete Jewish Bible
At this point I woke up and looked around, but I had enjoyed my sleep.
Darby Translation
For I have satiated the weary soul, and every languishing soul have I replenished.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will give rest and strength to those who are weak and tired."
George Lamsa Translation
For I have satisfied the thirsty soul and I have replenished every hungry soul.
Good News Translation
I will refresh those who are weary and will satisfy with food everyone who is weak from hunger.
Lexham English Bible
For I will saturate the thirst of the weary, and every person who languishes I will replenish."
Literal Translation
For I satisfy the weary soul, and I have filled every sorrowful soul.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I shall fede the hongrie soule, and refresh all faynte hertes.
American Standard Version
For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.
Bible in Basic English
For I have given new strength to the tired soul and to every sorrowing soul in full measure.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
King James Version (1611)
For I haue satiated the wearie soule, and I haue replenished euery sorowfull soule.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I shall feede the hungry soule, and refreshe all faynt heartes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed.
English Revised Version
For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y fillide greetli a feynt soule, and Y haue fillid ech hungri soule.
Update Bible Version
For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul I have replenished.
Webster's Bible Translation
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
New English Translation
I will fully satisfy the needs of those who are weary and fully refresh the souls of those who are faint.
New King James Version
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul."
New Life Bible
For I will help the tired ones and give strength to everyone who is weak."
New Revised Standard
I will satisfy the weary, and all who are faint I will replenish.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For I have satiated the weary soul, - And every languishing soul, have I filled.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled every hungry soul.
Revised Standard Version
For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish."
Young's Literal Translation
For I have satiated the weary soul, And every grieved soul I have filled.'
THE MESSAGE
I'll refresh tired bodies; I'll restore tired souls.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For I satisfy the weary ones and refresh everyone who languishes."

Contextual Overview

18 I have heard Israel saying, ‘You disciplined me severely, like a calf that needs training for the yoke. Turn me again to you and restore me, for you alone are the Lord my God. 19 I turned away from God, but then I was sorry. I kicked myself for my stupidity! I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days.' 20 "Is not Israel still my son, my darling child?" says the Lord . "I often have to punish him, but I still love him. That's why I long for him and surely will have mercy on him. 21 Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Mark well the path by which you came. Come back again, my virgin Israel; return to your towns here. 22 How long will you wander, my wayward daughter? For the Lord will cause something new to happen— Israel will embrace her God." 23 This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: "When I bring them back from captivity, the people of Judah and its towns will again say, ‘The Lord bless you, O righteous home, O holy mountain!' 24 Townspeople and farmers and shepherds alike will live together in peace and happiness. 25 For I have given rest to the weary and joy to the sorrowing." 26 At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very sweet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 31:14, Psalms 107:9, Isaiah 32:2, Isaiah 50:4, Matthew 5:6, Matthew 11:28, Luke 1:53, John 4:14, 2 Corinthians 7:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 65:4 - we shall be Isaiah 21:2 - all the Isaiah 42:3 - bruised Isaiah 51:3 - the Lord Jeremiah 50:19 - his soul Ezekiel 34:14 - feed them Luke 6:21 - for ye shall be John 16:20 - your

Cross-References

Genesis 12:8
After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the Lord , and he worshiped the Lord .
Genesis 33:18
Later, having traveled all the way from Paddan-aram, Jacob arrived safely at the town of Shechem, in the land of Canaan. There he set up camp outside the town.
Hebrews 11:9
And even when he reached the land God promised him, he lived there by faith—for he was like a foreigner, living in tents. And so did Isaac and Jacob, who inherited the same promise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I have satiated the weary soul,.... As sinners are at first awakenings and convictions; when sin is made exceeding sinful and loathsome to them, and becomes an uneasiness, and they a burden to themselves on account of it; when they labour, till they are weary, to get food for their famishing souls; weary in seeking for righteousness to cover them, in working for life to save them, and inquiring after rest; but cannot find neither food, nor righteousness, nor life, nor rest, till they come to Christ; and as all the saints are weary of a body of sin and death, with mourning over it, and groaning under it; weary of Satan's temptations and buffetings; weary of the world, and the men of it, and with afflictive dispensations of Providence in it; and are as weary travellers passing through a waste howling wilderness; these the Lord "satiates", refreshes, and even "inebriates" h, as the word used signifies, with his love; which is very reviving and refreshing, and is a feast of itself; and is very satisfying when it is shed abroad in the heart; when souls have a delightful sense of it, and see their interest in it; particularly satiates with his pardoning grace and mercy, and with food, and fulness of it, in Christ; with righteousness, life, and salvation by him; and with rest, peace, joy, and comfort in him: and this, though a promise and prophecy of what would be, yet, because of the certainty of it, is represented as if it had been done already; as also what follows:

and I have replenished every sorrowful soul; that is sorry for sin after a godly sort, and mourns for it after an evangelical manner; is troubled for want of the divine presence, and is pressed with afflictions inward and outward: these the Lord "replenishes" or "fills" i; that is, with all good, as the Targum adds, and fills them to satisfaction; with Christ, and all good things by him; with peace, pardon, righteousness, and salvation; with the Spirit, his gifts and graces; with Gospel provisions, the goodness and fatness of his house; with all spiritual blessings now, and with glory and happiness hereafter. The Septuagint, and all the Oriental versions, instead of "weary" and "sorrowful", render the words "thirsty and hungry"; and such as hunger and thirst after righteousness; after the discoveries of pardoning grace; after Christ, and salvation by him; after more knowledge of him, and communion with him; are, sooner or later, filled with those things they are hungering and thirsting after; see Matthew 5:6.

h הרויתי "inebriavi", V. L. Vatablus; "inebriabo", Piscator. i מלאתי "implebo", Schmidt; "explebo", Piscator; "explevero", Junius Tremellius "implevero", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sorrowful - Or, languishing Jeremiah 31:12.


 
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