The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:21 (NASB)

“Set up roadmarks for yourself, Place guideposts for yourself; Direct your mind to the highway,
The way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:22 (NASB)

How long will you waver, You rebellious daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth: A woman will shelter a man.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 31:23 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Yet again shall they use this speech In the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, When I shall turn their captivity: 'The LORD bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of holiness.'

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 31:24 (KJV)
And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:25 (NIV)

I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:26 (NIV)

At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 31:27 (KJV)
Behold, 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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 31:28 (KJV)
And 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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:29 (NIV)

29 ‘In those days people will no longer say,

“The parents have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:30 (NIV)

Instead, everyone will die for their own sin; whoever eats sour grapes – their own teeth will be set on edge.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 31:31 (NKJV)
“Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 31:32 (NKJV)
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:33 (NIV)

‘This is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,’ declares the Lord.
‘I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:34 (NIV)

No longer will they teach their neighbour,
or say to one another, “Know the Lord,”
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,’
declares the Lord.
‘For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.’

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 31:35 (BSB)
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 31:36 (NKJV)
“If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:37 (NIV)

This is what the Lord says:

‘Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,’ declares the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:38 (NIV)

‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when this city will be rebuilt for me
from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate

 

[Godsgirl83]

Jeremiah 31:39


The surveyor’s line shall again extend straight forward over the hill Gareb; then it shall turn toward Goath.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 31:40 (NIV)

The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east
as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the Lord. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.’