Jeremiah 31:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

This verse containeth only a further variety of expressions, all signifying the same thing, viz. their happy state for some time after the captivity. We may understand the dancings here of all sorts of people, either of their religious rejoicing in their holy festivals, (for under the Old Testament in their religious rejoicing they used these external expressions of joy, as appears from Psalms 150:4, and from David's dancing before the ark,) or of their civil joy, where dancing was more usual: the last words of the verse expound all the former.

Jeremiah 31:13

13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.