World English Bible
Jeremiah 22:27
“But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 22
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and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26
I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.
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But to the land whereunto their soul longs to return, there shall they not return.
28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?
29
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.
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