Jeremiah 31:2

God's Relationship With His People

¹ "At that time," says the LORD, "will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people." ² Thus says the LORD, "The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. ³ The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

By the Sword

In the Wilderness

Lord Said

People of Israel

Says the Lord

Thus Says the Lord

In The Desert

This Is What The Lord Says

Israel

Jehovah

Numbers 10:33

They set forward from the Mount of the LORD three days' journey. The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

Deuteronomy 1:33

who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

Psalm 95:11

Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."

Exodus 1:16

and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

Exodus 1:22

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

Exodus 2:23

It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Exodus 5:21

and they said to them, "May the LORD look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

Exodus 12:37

The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.

Exodus 14:8-12

The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.

Exodus 15:9-10

The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'

Exodus 17:8-13

Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

Exodus 33:14

He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

Numbers 14:20

The LORD said, "I have pardoned according to your word:

Deuteronomy 1:30

The LORD your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

Deuteronomy 2:7

For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

Deuteronomy 8:2-3

You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

Deuteronomy 12:9

for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God gives you.

Nehemiah 9:12-15

Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

Psalm 78:14-16

In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

Psalm 78:23-29

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

Psalm 78:52

But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Psalm 105:37-43

He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

Psalm 136:16-24

To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Isaiah 63:7-14

I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Jeremiah 2:2

"Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "I remember you, the devotion of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Ezekiel 20:14-17

But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

Matthew 11:28

"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Hebrews 4:8-9

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.