Jeremiah 31:17

31:17 Indeed, there is hope for your posterity. ¹ 

Your children will return to their own territory.

I, the Lord, affirm it! ² 

Jeremiah 29:11

29:11 For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord. ³  ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you ⁴  a future filled with hope. ⁵ 

[31:17]  ¹ tn For this nuance for the Hebrew word אַחֲרִית (’akharit) see BDB 31 s.v. אַחֲרִית d and compare usage in Pss 37:38; 109:13. Others translate “your future” but the “future” lies with the return of her descendants, her posterity.

[31:17]  ² tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[29:11]  ³ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[29:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “I know the plans that I am planning for you, oracle of the Lord, plans of well-being and not for harm to give to you….”

[29:11]  ⁵ tn Or “the future you hope for”; Heb “a future and a hope.” This is a good example of hendiadys where two formally coordinated nouns (adjectives, verbs) convey a single idea where one of the terms functions as a qualifier of the other. For this figure see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 658-72. This example is discussed on p. 661.