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

And now, what -- to thee in the way of Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? And what -- to thee in the way of Asshur, To drink the waters of the River?

Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, The wickedness of thy whoredom, on heights in a field, I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, Thou art not cleansed, after when is it again?

Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?

Backsliding

And Jehovah saith unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, 'Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and committeth fornication there.

And they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, And they walk in the counsels, In the stubbornness, of their evil heart, And are for backward, and not for forward.

And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return?

Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.

What -- dost thou boast thyself in valleys? Flowed hath thy valley, O backsliding daughter, Who is trusting in her treasures: Who doth come in unto me?

For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.

I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.

And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.

Created

and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol -- then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.'

A woman

Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called 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.'

And Mary said unto the messenger, 'How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?'

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

General references

to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name is Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin is Mary.