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Scott's Reference Library
Jeremiah 31:15 through Jeremiah 31:17 (NIV)
15This is what the LORD says:
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
mourning and great weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted,
because her children are no more.”
16This is what the LORD says:
“Restrain your voice from weeping
and your eyes from tears,
for your work will be rewarded,”
declares the LORD.
“They will return from the land of the enemy.
17 So there is hope for your future,”
declares the LORD.
“Your children will return to their own land.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 10-17
He that scattered Israel, knows where to find them. It is comfortable to observe
the goodness of the Lord in the gifts of providence. But our souls are never
valuable as gardens, unless watered with the dews of God’s Spirit and grace. A
precious promise follows, which will not have full accomplishment except in the
heavenly Zion. Let them be satisfied of God’s loving-kindness, and they will be
satisfied with it, and desire no more to make them happy. Rachel is represented
as rising from her grave, and refusing to be comforted, supposing her offspring
rooted out. The murder of the children at Bethlehem, by Herod, Matthew 2:16-18,
in some degree fulfilled this prediction, but could not be its full meaning. If
we have hope in the end, concerning an eternal inheritance, for ourselves and
those belonging to us, all temporal afflictions may be borne, and will be for
our good.