Jeremiah 31:22

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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

Now, what are you doing on the road to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? And what are you doing on the road to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

Jerusalem, wash your evil from your heart so that you may be delivered. How long will you harbor evil schemes within you?

I've seen your detestable behavior: your adulteries, your passionate neighing, your lewd immorality on the hills in the field. How terrible it will be for you, Jerusalem! You are unclean. How much longer will this go on?"

Your calf, Samaria, has been thrown away. My anger is burning against them. How long until they become pure again?

Backsliding

In the time of King Josiah the LORD told me, "Have you seen what unfaithful Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she committed fornication there.

But they didn't listen, nor did they pay attention. They pursued their own plans, stubbornly following their own evil desires. They went backward and not forward.

"You are to say to them, "This is what the LORD says: "Will a person fall down and then not get up? Will someone turn away and then not turn back again?

LORD,even though our iniquities testify against us, do something for the sake of your name. Indeed, our apostasies are many, and we have sinned against you.

Why do you boast in your valleys? Your valley is flowing away, faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, "Who will come against me?'

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn mule! Nevertheless, will not the LORD feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

My people are determined to turn away from me; though they call to the Most High, no one is worshiping.

"I will correct their apostasy, loving them freely, since my anger will have turned away from them.

But they refused to pay attention, turned their backs, and stopped listening.

Created

But if the LORD creates something new, so that the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and everything that belongs to them and they all descend directly to Sheol while still alive, then you'll know that these men have spurned the LORD."

A woman

"Therefore the LORD himself will give you a sign. Watch! The virgin is conceiving a child, and will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.

She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he is the one who will save his people from their sins."

Mary asked the angel, "How can this happen, since I have not had relations with a man?"

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,

General references

to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary.