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

Backsliding

Created

Numbers 16:30

A woman

General references

Luke 1:27

Bible References

How

And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"

I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Backsliding

The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore?

But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

"You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?

"Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, 'Who will come against me?'

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the LORD now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.

I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

Created

But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."

A woman

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

She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I am a virgin?"

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the 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.