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 hast thou to do in the way of Egypt? to drink the waters of the Nile? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria? to drink the waters of the river Eufrates?

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness that thou may be saved. How long shalt thou entertain the thoughts of thy iniquity within thee?

I have seen thine adulteries and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom upon the hills; in the same field I saw thine abominations. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean at last? How long then shall it be?

Thy calf, O Samaria, has cast thee off; my anger has been kindled against them until they could no longer be absolved.

Backsliding

The LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which rebellious Israel has done? She is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

But they did not hearken, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels in the imagination of their evil heart and went backward, and not forward

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD said: The one who falls, does he never arise? he who turns away, does he never return?

O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for thy name's sake; for our rebellions have multiplied; we have sinned against thee.

Why gloriest thou in the valleys? Thy valley has slipped, O backsliding daughter that trusted in her treasures, she that saith, Who shall come against me?

for Israel has turned away as a wild heifer; shall the LORD now feed them as rams in a large place?

Meanwhile, my people adhere to the rebellion against me though they call unto me upon High; absolutely none at all wish to exalt me.

I will heal their rebellion; I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.

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

Created

But if the LORD does a new thing and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all their things and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the LORD.

A woman

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

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

Then Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

General references

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