For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
The chapter belongs to the written record of Israel's restoration given immediately after the exchange of letters with the captives in Babylon. Together with Jeremiah 25, it was studied prayerfully more than sixty years later, in the first year of Darius the Mede, as a plain and sure promise that God would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem before the exiles returned. That promise was held even while there was perplexity about how the seventy years related to the twenty-three hundred years until the cleansing of the sanctuary.
The verse is a promise of restoration and the new covenant that in restoring Judah from captivity God will satisfy the weary soul and replenish every sorrowful soul. This comfort will accompany the people's return to Judah, where they will live and work in its cities and countryside.
The chapter belongs to the written record of Israel's restoration given immediately after the exchange of letters with the captives in Babylon. Together with Jeremiah 25, it was studied prayerfully more than sixty years later, in the first year of Darius the Mede, as a plain and sure promise that God would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem before the exiles returned. That promise was held even while there was perplexity about how the seventy years related to the twenty-three hundred years until the cleansing of the sanctuary.
The verse is a promise of restoration and the new covenant that in restoring Judah from captivity God will satisfy the weary soul and replenish every sorrowful soul. This comfort will accompany the people's return to Judah, where they will live and work in its cities and countryside.