Jeremiah 3:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

How

Jeremiah 5:7

Hosea 11:8

Put thee

Pleasant land

Daniel 11:16

Goodly heritage

Proverbs 3:35

1 Peter 1:3

Thou shalt

Shalt not

Jeremiah 32:39

Hebrews 10:39

General references

Isaiah 17:7

Bible References

How

The Lord asked, "How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.

How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart! All my tender compassions are aroused!

Put thee

Even now you say to me, 'You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel's father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.'"

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

Therefore "come out from their midst, and be separate," says the Lord, "and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will --

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

Pleasant land

Many foreign rulers will ruin the land where I planted my people. They will trample all over my chosen land. They will turn my beautiful land into a desolate wasteland.

They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

From one of them came a small horn. But it grew to be very big, toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.

The one advancing against him will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to stand before him. He will prevail in the beautiful land, and its annihilation will be within his power.

Goodly heritage

The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Thou shalt

Even now you say to me, 'You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, Lord, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.

Yet, Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba, Father."

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

Shalt not

I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.

But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.

General references

At that time men will trust in their creator; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel.