What Does Jeremiah 30:19 Mean?
Out of them shall come extended hands, and the voice of those who laugh. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few. I will also give them weight, and they shall not be small.
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King James Version
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.THE KEY
The glory promised here is weight: thanksgiving rises in a people whose life is enlarged beyond fewness and smallness.
THE MEANING
This promise meets you now: your life and the people around you are not confined to fewness or smallness. Thanksgiving and gladness rise as public voices from expanding life, and God gives that life weight.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being small or overlooked is your permanent measure; here, smallness is answered by increase and weight.
THE ROOT
וְהִכְבַּדְתִּים
vehikhbadtim
GROWS FROM
כבד
Be heavy or weighty; carry honor and significance.
“give them weight” in this verse is vehikhbadtim. The word translated “glorify” grows from a root meaning weighty. Its pairing with “they shall not be small” makes the promise tangible: this people receive substance and standing.
ALSO GROWS
kavod: Weight or honor; commonly rendered “glory.”
כָּבוֹד
This noun keeps the sense of weight inside the English word “glory.”
kaved: Heavy or weighty.
כָּבֵד
It makes the honor in “glorify” concrete: the people are given weight.
תּוֹדָה
todah
GROWS FROM
ידה
Give thanks, praise, or acknowledge.
“extended hands” in this verse is todah. The thanksgiving term grows from a verb of acknowledgment and praise, so gratitude here is voiced recognition rather than an unspoken mood. It rises alongside the people’s glad voice, making restoration audible and shared.
ALSO GROWS
yadah: To give thanks, praise, or acknowledge.
יָדָה
The verb behind “thanksgiving” links gratitude with spoken acknowledgment, matching the voice that proceeds from the people.
Yehudah: Judah; in Genesis 29:35, the name is linked by wordplay with “I will praise.”
יְהוּדָה
The praise-root also appears in a people’s name, connecting voiced thanksgiving with communal identity.
THE PATTERN
Restoration becomes audible in shared praise and visible in a community’s growing life.
For the LORD will comfort Zion. He will comfort all her dry ruins, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert plain like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.Let the peoples extend their hands to you, O God; let all the peoples extend their hands to you. The earth gives her yield, and God, our own God, blesses us.Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the assembly each day those who were being delivered.THE THREAD
Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before me for the ages. But now the LORD says, Far be it from me. For those who give me weight, I will give weight; those who make light of me shall be made light.The Hebrew root כבד (kabad, be heavy or weighty; honor) appears in both occurrences of “honour,” set against those who are “lightly esteemed.” Jeremiah uses that same weight-root for the people as a whole, giving their honor the sense of restored substance and standing.
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