Jeremiah 31:8 - Exposition

The weakest among the Israelites will share the blessings with the strongest, even the blind and the lame (comp. Isaiah 33:23 , "The lame take the prey"). Elsewhere we are told that, in the Messianic age, "the eyes of the blind shall see," and "the lame man shall leap as an hart" ( Isaiah 35:5 , Isaiah 35:6 ). Shall return thither; rather, hither; i.e. to Palestine, where Jeremiah writes this prophecy. The word for company is hahal, the proper word in the Pentateuch for the Israelitish national "congregation."