Jeremiah 31-33

Israel’s Mourning Turned to Joy

Jer 31:20-21 LSB - 

[20] "Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him; Therefore My inmost being yearns for him; I will surely have compassion on him," declares Yahweh. 

[21] "Set up roadmarks for yourself, Place for yourself guideposts; Set your heart to the highway, The way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities.

Jer 31:22 LSB - [22] "How long will you go here and there, O faithless daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth-- A woman will encompass a man."

Jer 31:22 ESV - [22] How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encircles a man."

 

The New Covenant

Jer 31:29-30 LSB - 

[29] "In those days they will not say again, 

'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, 

And the children's teeth are set on edge.' 

[30] "But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

Jer 31:33-34 LSB - 

[33] "But this is the covenant which I will cut with the house of Israel after those days," declares Yahweh: "I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 

[34] "And they will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know Yahweh,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares Yahweh, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

Jer 31:35-36 LSB - 

[35] Thus says Yahweh, Who gives the sun for light by day And the statutes for the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; Yahweh of hosts is His name: 

[36] "If these statutes are removed From before Me," declares Yahweh, "Then the seed of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever."

Jeremiah Imprisoned

Jeremiah Prays, Yahweh Responds

Jer 32:37-41 LSB - 

[37] "Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands to which I have banished them in My anger, in My wrath, and in great indignation; and I will cause them to return to this place and make them inhabit [it] in safety. 

[38] "And they shall be My people, and I will be their God; 

[39] and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own good and for [the good of] their children after them. 

[40] "And I will cut an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me. 

[41] "And I will rejoice over them to do them good and will truly plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.

Yahweh Will Pardon the People’s Iniquity

The Righteous Branch of David

Jer 33:15-16 LSB - 

[15] 'In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to branch forth; and He shall do justice and righteousness on the earth. 

[16] 'In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell in security; and this is [the name] by which she will be called: Yahweh is our righteousness.'