Jeremias 31:26
Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I saw, and my sleep was sweet to me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ideo quasi de somno suscitatus sum : et vidi, et somnus meus dulcis mihi.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 38:26
- διὰ τοῦτο ἐξηγέρθην καὶ ἴδον, καὶ ὁ ὕπνος μου ἡδύς μοι ἐγενήθη.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַל זֹ֖את הֱקִיצֹ֣תִי וָאֶרְאֶ֑ה וּשְׁנָתִ֖י עָ֥רְבָה לִּֽי
Haydock's commentary
To me. Thus Jeremias concludes his prediction with joy. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book IV, Chapter XXXI. We should not hastily
2. Thus, after their simplicity and innocence, did these daughters [of Lot] so speak, imagining that all mankind had perished, even as the Sodomites had done, and that the anger of God had come down upon the whole earth. Wherefore also they are to be held excusable, since they supposed that they only, along with their father, were left for the preservation of the human race; and for this reason it was that they deceived their father. Moreover, by the words they used this fact was pointed out, that there is no other one who can confer upon the elder and younger church the [power of] giving birth to children, besides our Father. …
St Ambrose Concerning Repentance, Chapter V. As to the words of St. Peter to Simon Magus, from which the Novatians infer that there was no forgiveness for the latter, it is pointed out that St. Peter, knowing his evil heart, might well use words of doubt, and then by some Old Testament instances it is pointed out that “perchance” does not exclude forgiveness. The apostles transmitted to us that penitence, the fruits of which are shown in the case of David. St. Ambrose then adduces the example of the Ephraimites, whose penitence must be followed in order to gain the divine mercy and the sacraments
39. And what mercy He promises us, the Lord also shows, when He says further on: “I have satiated every thirsty soul, and have satisfied every hungry soul. Therefore, I awaked and beheld, and My sleep was sweet unto Me.” We observe that the Lord promises His sacraments to those who sin. Let us, then, all be converted to the Lord.