Jeremiah 31:17

“And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, etc.] Or, “hope for thy posterity”f596; for their children that had been massacred, that these should rise again, and enjoy a blessed immortality, as the next clause seems to explain and confirm it: that thy children shall come again to their own border: either to the border of the land of Israel, as Joseph, Mary, and Jesus did, (<400221>Matthew 2:21,22); or rather to the borders of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, where this cruel murder was committed; and so the intimation is, that they shall rise again, and stand upon that very spot of ground where their blood was split; and not only so, but enter into and dwell upon the new earth in the…”

“hope in . . . end--All thy calamities shall have a prosperous issue.”

“The religious character of the restoration of the ten tribes. Chastisement brought repentance, and with it forgiveness; therefore God decrees their restoration. Jeremiah 31:15 Ramah, mentioned because of its nearness to Jerusalem, from which it was distant about five miles. As the mother of three tribes, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, Rachel is regarded as the mother of the whole ten. This passage is quoted by Matthew (marginal reference) as a type. In Jeremiah it is a poetical figure representing in a dramatic form the miserable condition of the kingdom of Ephraim devastated by the sword of the Assyrians. Jeremiah 31:16 Rachel’s work had been that of bearing and bringing up children, and…”

“Jer 29:11-16, Jer 46:27, Jer 46:28; Psa 102:13, Psa 102:14; Isa 6:13, Isa 11:11-16; Lam 3:18, Lam 3:21, Lam 3:26; Eze 37:11-14, Eze 37:25, Eze 39:28; Hos 2:15, Hos 3:5; Amo 9:8, Amo 9:9; Mat 24:22; Rom 11:23-26 Jeremiah 31:18”