The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant ; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
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Gill's Exposition
The Lord said,.... In answer to the prophet's complaint:
verily it shall be well with thy remnant: not with the remnant of his people, or those that should escape the threatened calamities; but the…
Barnes' Notes
Shall be well with thy remnant - Or, thy loosing shall be for good; in the sense of being set free, deliverance. To entreat thee well ... - Rather, “to supplicate thee in the time of evil etc.;”…
Jeremiah has now returned from his public work and retired into his closet; what passed between him and his God there we have an account of in these and the following verses, which he published…
Cambridge Bible
The v. is difficult without applying considerable conjectural emendation. The whole is best taken as Jeremiah's utterance. "The Lord said "is not a formula which elsewhere in Jeremiah introduces a…
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