Jeremiah 31:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How 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.

How

Jeremiah 2:18

Jeremiah 13:27

Hosea 8:5

Backsliding

Created

Numbers 16:30

A woman

General references

Luke 1:27

Bible References

How

And now what have thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills, in the field. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem! Thou will not be made clean. How long shall it yet be?

He has cast off thy calf, O Samaria. MY anger is kindled against them. How long will it be ere they attain to innocence?

Backsliding

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Moreover thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall he turn away, and not return?

Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.

Why do thou glory in the valleys, thy flowing valley? O backsliding daughter, who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me?

For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to [him who is] on high, none at all will exalt [him].

I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. For my anger is turned away from him.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

Created

But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD.

A woman

Therefore LORD himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

And she will bring forth a son, and thou shall call his name JESUS, for he will save his people from their sins.

And Mary said to the agent, How will this be, since I know not a man?

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born from a woman, born under law,

General references

to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary.