Jeremiah 31:26
New International Version
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me.

New Living Translation
At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very sweet.

English Standard Version
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

Berean Standard Bible
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

King James Bible
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

New King James Version
After this I awoke and looked around, and my sleep was sweet to me.

New American Standard Bible
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep had been pleasant to me.

NASB 1995
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

NASB 1977
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

Legacy Standard Bible
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

Amplified Bible
At this I (Jeremiah) awoke and looked, and my [trancelike] sleep was sweet [in the assurance it gave] to me.

Christian Standard Bible
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

American Standard Version
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because of this, I awoke and I saw, and my sleep was sweet to me

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Therefore I awake, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.

Contemporary English Version
and when they sleep, they will wake up refreshed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I saw, and my sleep was sweet to me.

English Revised Version
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant.

Good News Translation
So then, people will say, 'I went to sleep and woke up refreshed.'

International Standard Version
Then I awoke and looked around, and I had had a pleasant sleep.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; And my sleep was sweet unto me.

Literal Standard Version
On this I have awoken, and I behold, and my sleep has been sweet to me.

Majority Standard Bible
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

New American Bible
At this I awoke and opened my eyes; my sleep was satisfying.

NET Bible
Then they will say, 'Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep when I wake up and look around.'"

New Revised Standard Version
Thereupon I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

New Heart English Bible
On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.

World English Bible
On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

Young's Literal Translation
On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Mourning Turned to Joy
25for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.” 26At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me. 27“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.…

Cross References
Genesis 28:16
When Jacob woke up, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it."

Proverbs 3:24
When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.

Zechariah 4:1
Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.


Treasury of Scripture

On this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.

Psalm 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.

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, …

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Jeremiah 31
1. The restoration of Israel.
10. The publication thereof.
15. Rahel mourning is comforted.
18. Ephraim repenting is brought home again.
22. Christ is promised.
27. His care over the church.
31. His new covenant.
35. The stability,
38. and amplitude of the church.














(26) Upon this I awaked . . .--The words that follow have been very differently interpreted. By some writers (Rosenmller) they have been referred to Jehovah under the figure of the husband who has dreamt of his wife's return. Others (Ewald) have seen in them a quotation from some well-known psalm or hymn, like Psalm 17:15, indicating that in the golden days to which Jeremiah looked forward there should be freedom even from the evil and dark dreams of a time of peril, so that every man should be able to give thanks for the "sweet" gift of sleep (Psalm 127:2). It is, however, far more natural to take them as the prophet's own words. The vision of a restored Israel, such as he paints it in the preceding verses, had come to him in his sleep. (See Jeremiah 23:28; Joel 2:28, as to this mode of revelation.) And when he woke up there was no sense of bitter disappointment like that of the dreamer described in Isaiah 29:8. The promise that came to him when he woke was as distinct and blessed as the dream had been. The "sweet sleep" has its parallel in Proverbs 3:24. . . . Verse 26. - Upon this I awaked, etc. Who the speaker is here has been much debated. That Jehovah is meant is not an admissible view. A weak believer may say complainingly, "Why sleepest thou?" but God himself cannot be represented under the image of a sleeper. There seems, however, to be no reason why the prophet should not have used this language. The doubt is whether a real, physical sleep is meant, or merely an ecstatic condition resembling sleep. Hengstenberg decides for the latter. But there is no parallel for sleep in the sense of ecstasy, and, on the other hand, there is evidence enough for dreams as the channels of Divine revelation (Genesis 31:10, 11; 1 Kings 3:5; 1 Kings 9:2; Joel 2:28). As Naegelsbach points out, this is the only unqualifiedly comforting prophecy in the whole book, and may well have left a sweet savour in the prophet's memory. Stern, indeed, was the reality which the moment of his waking brought back to him.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
At
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

this
זֹ֖את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

I awoke
הֱקִיצֹ֣תִי (hĕ·qî·ṣō·ṯî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6974: Arise, be awake, watch

and looked around.
וָאֶרְאֶ֑ה (wā·’er·’eh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

My sleep
וּשְׁנָתִ֖י (ū·šə·nā·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8142: Sleep

had been most pleasant to me.
עָ֥רְבָה (‘ā·rə·ḇāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6149: To be sweet or pleasing


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