…exiles. And so Rachel's weeping here because they are no more. They are in exile. They've been defeated. But interestingly, in that same passage inJeremiah 31 verses 16 to 17, the Lord God himself tells Rachel to stop weeping because he will bring back her children from exile and restore them to their own country. And…
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