Jeremiah 31

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1At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.60 cross-references: Jeremiah 30:22, Isaiah 41:10, Jeremiah 30:24, Genesis 17:7–8, Jeremiah 3:18
2Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.35 cross-references: Psalms 95:11, Numbers 10:33, Deuteronomy 1:33, Matthew 11:28, Isaiah 63:7–14
3The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.53 cross-references: Psalms 103:17, Isaiah 54:8–9, Hosea 11:4, Deuteronomy 33:3, Ephesians 2:4–5
4Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.55 cross-references: Jeremiah 33:7, Jeremiah 31:13, Amos 5:2, Acts 15:16, Revelation 21:10–27
5Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.16 cross-references: Amos 9:14, Deuteronomy 28:30, Micah 4:4, Leviticus 19:23–25, Isaiah 62:8–9
6For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God.38 cross-references: Jeremiah 50:4–5, Isaiah 52:7–8, Zechariah 8:20–23, Jeremiah 50:19, Isaiah 2:2–4
7For thus saith the Lord; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.44 cross-references: Isaiah 37:31, Psalms 14:7, Psalms 28:9, Jeremiah 23:3, Isaiah 42:10–12
8Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.63 cross-references: Ezekiel 34:16, Isaiah 42:16, Jeremiah 23:8, Micah 4:6, Isaiah 40:11
9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.78 cross-references: Jeremiah 3:4, Matthew 5:4, Exodus 4:22, Jeremiah 31:20, Jeremiah 50:4
10Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.56 cross-references: Isaiah 40:11, Ezekiel 34:12, Isaiah 66:19, Deuteronomy 30:4, Zephaniah 3:19
11For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.25 cross-references: Titus 2:14, Isaiah 44:23, Isaiah 48:20, Psalms 142:6, Jeremiah 15:21
12Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.63 cross-references: Isaiah 35:10, Isaiah 58:11, Joel 3:18, Isaiah 65:19, Ezekiel 17:23
13Then 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.34 cross-references: Psalms 30:11, Isaiah 51:11, Isaiah 61:3, Jeremiah 31:4, Nehemiah 12:27
14And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.35 cross-references: Jeremiah 31:25, 1 Peter 2:9, Jeremiah 33:9, Ephesians 3:19, Revelation 7:16–17
15Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.39 cross-references: Matthew 2:16–18, Psalms 77:2, Jeremiah 40:1, Genesis 35:19, Isaiah 22:4
16Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.28 cross-references: Ruth 2:12, Jeremiah 30:3, Hebrews 11:6, 2 Chronicles 15:7, Hebrews 6:10
17And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.20 cross-references: Lamentations 3:21, Hosea 2:15, Lamentations 3:18, Hosea 3:5, Jeremiah 29:11–16
18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.123 cross-references: Jeremiah 31:9, Psalms 80:3, Jeremiah 3:21–22, Job 5:17, Isaiah 9:13
19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.44 cross-references: Jeremiah 3:25, Ezekiel 36:31, Ezekiel 21:12, Luke 18:13, Deuteronomy 30:2
20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.58 cross-references: Isaiah 55:7, Micah 7:18–19, Lamentations 3:31–32, Isaiah 63:15, Psalms 103:13
21Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.24 cross-references: Jeremiah 50:5, Isaiah 62:10, Isaiah 48:20, Jeremiah 51:50, Jeremiah 3:14
22How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.45 cross-references: Jeremiah 49:4, Jeremiah 7:24, Matthew 1:21, Luke 1:34–35, Hosea 11:7
23Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The Lord bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.40 cross-references: Zechariah 8:3, Isaiah 1:26, Jeremiah 50:7, Jeremiah 30:18, Micah 4:1
24And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.10 cross-references: Zechariah 8:4–8, Ezekiel 36:10, Jeremiah 33:11–13, Zechariah 2:4
25For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.20 cross-references: Matthew 5:6, Matthew 11:28, John 4:14, Psalms 107:9, Jeremiah 31:14
26Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.9 cross-references: Psalms 127:2, Zechariah 4:1–2
27Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.24 cross-references: Hosea 2:23, Ezekiel 36:9, Ezekiel 36:11, Zechariah 10:9, Jeremiah 30:19
28And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.33 cross-references: Jeremiah 24:6, Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 45:4, Jeremiah 18:7–9, Jeremiah 44:27
29In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.10 cross-references: Lamentations 5:7, Ezekiel 18:2–3, Jeremiah 31:30
30But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.14 cross-references: Ezekiel 18:20, Isaiah 3:11, Ezekiel 18:4, Deuteronomy 24:16, Galatians 6:5
31Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:64 cross-references: Hebrews 10:16–17, Ezekiel 37:26, Jeremiah 32:40, Jeremiah 31:31–34, 2 Corinthians 3:6
32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:62 cross-references: Exodus 19:5, Deuteronomy 1:31, Deuteronomy 5:3, Exodus 24:6–8, Ezekiel 16:8
33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.109 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 3:3, Hebrews 10:16, Hebrews 8:10, Ezekiel 11:19–20, Jeremiah 24:7
34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.71 cross-references: Isaiah 43:25, Hebrews 8:12, Isaiah 54:13, 1 John 2:27, Jeremiah 33:8
35Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:53 cross-references: Isaiah 51:15, Jeremiah 10:16, Psalms 136:7–9, Jeremiah 50:34, Genesis 1:14–18
36If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.17 cross-references: Psalms 89:36–37, Jeremiah 33:20–26, Isaiah 54:9–10, Psalms 148:6, Deuteronomy 32:26
37Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.19 cross-references: Jeremiah 33:24–26, Isaiah 40:12, Jeremiah 33:22, Romans 11:1–5, Romans 11:26–29
38Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.30 cross-references: Zechariah 14:10, 2 Kings 14:13, Jeremiah 30:18, 2 Chronicles 26:9, Jeremiah 31:27
39And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.4 cross-references: Zechariah 2:1–2, Ezekiel 40:8
40And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the Lord; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.28 cross-references: Joel 3:17, 2 Samuel 15:23, 2 Chronicles 23:15, 2 Kings 11:16, John 18:1

Explained connections

Rachel weeping for her children Jeremiah 31:15 and Matthew 2:18
Jeremiah pictures Rachel weeping at Ramah as Israel's children go into exile — followed immediately by a promise of return. Matthew applies it to Herod's slaughter of Bethlehem's infants; the choice of a text that leads into hope suggests the grief is not the end.
A new covenant Jeremiah 31:31 and Hebrews 8:8
Jeremiah promises a new covenant unlike the one Israel broke. Hebrews quotes the entire passage — the longest Old Testament quotation in the New — and notes that calling it 'new' makes the first one obsolete.
Laws written on hearts Jeremiah 31:33 and Hebrews 10:16
Hebrews returns to Jeremiah to show that, in the new covenant, God writes his law on hearts and remembers sins no more — so no further sacrifice for sin is needed.
The new covenant in my blood Jeremiah 31:31 and Luke 22:20
Jeremiah foresaw a new covenant with forgiveness and God's law on the heart. At the Last Supper Jesus calls the cup the new covenant in his blood — the only time he uses the phrase.
Ministers of a new covenant Jeremiah 31:31 and 2 Corinthians 3:6
Paul calls himself a minister of the new covenant, of the Spirit rather than the letter. He contrasts it with the fading glory of Sinai.
Sins remembered no more Jeremiah 31:34 and Hebrews 10:17
Jeremiah's new covenant ends with God forgetting sins. Hebrews concludes from this that where sins are forgiven, no further offering is needed.

Chapters most linked to Jeremiah 31

People in Jeremiah 31

God, Ephraim, Jacob, Rachel, Gareb

Places in Jeremiah 31

Zion, Samaria, Ramah, Egypt, Corner Gate, Tower, Gareb, Goah, Kidron, Horse Gate

Hard questions about Jeremiah 31

Does God forgive sins, when Joshua said he will not?