Jeremiah Chapter 31 verse 26 Holy Bible
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
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At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
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-- Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
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Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
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On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
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On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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. . . .
