Jeremiah 31:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

Jeremiah 31:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zechariah 4:1-2
And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, …
Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-26)

We have here, I. Ephraim’s repentance, and return to God. Not only Judah, but Ephraim the ten tribes, shall be restored, and therefore shall thus be prepared and qualified for it, Hos. 14:8. Ephraim shall say, What have I do to any more with idols? Ephraim the people, is here spoken of as a single person to denote their unanimity; they shall be as one man in their repentance and shall glorify God…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. The words of Jeremiah: Upon this (or, By reason of this) announcement of a happy restoration, “I awaked” from the prophetic dream vouchsafed to me (Jr 23:25) with the “sweet” impression thereof remaining on my mind. “Sleep” here means dream, as in Psa 90:5.