If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
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Gill's Exposition
Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid,.... Lest he should revenge the death of Gedaliah upon them, which was a groundless fear; see Jer 41:18; or that they should be dealt hardly…
Barnes' Notes
I repent me - As punishment had been inflicted, the divine justice was satisfied.
We have here the answer which Jeremiah was sent to deliver to those who employed him to ask counsel of God.
I. It did not come immediately, not till ten days after, Jer 42:7. They were thus long held…
Cambridge Bible
then will I build you, etc.] Cp. Jer 1:10; Jer 24:6 for these figures.
I repent me an anthropomorphic figure. I change my conducttowards you, which with menis commonly caused by change of purpose.
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