And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Parallel translations
- WEB There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh; “and your children shall come again to their own border.
- BSB So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
- NKJV There is hope in your future, says the Lord, That your children shall come back to their own border.
- NASB “There is hope for your future,” declares the Lord, “And your children will return to their own territory.
- NLT There is hope for your future,” says the Lord. “Your children will come again to their own land.
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Quick answer
God promises hope for Israel's future, that her children will return to their own border. There is a hopeful end beyond present sorrow.
Overview
The explicit promise of 'hope for your latter end' answers Rachel's grief with the certainty of return. God's restoration secures a future for His people beyond their loss. This forward-looking hope mirrors the believer's confidence that God works all things toward a good and final restoration.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Lam 3:21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
- Hos 3:5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
- Lam 3:26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
- Jer 29:11–16For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
- Hos 2:15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
- Lam 3:18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
- Rom 11:23–26And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
- Ezek 37:25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
- Isa 11:11–16And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
- Matt 24:22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
- Isa 6:13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
- Jer 46:27–28But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
- Ps 102:13–14Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
- Amos 9:8–9Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
- Ezek 37:11–14Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
- Ezek 39:28Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
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