‘You shall be My people, And I will be your God.’ ”
Parallel translations
- WEB “You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- KJV And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- BSB “And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
- NKJV ‘You shall be My people, And I will be your God.’ ”
- NLT You will be my people, and I will be your God.”
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Quick answer
God restates the covenant heart: 'You shall be my people, and I will be your God.' Restoration culminates in restored relationship.
Overview
This covenant formula recurs throughout Scripture as the essence of God's purpose with His people. The goal of all the promised restoration is renewed fellowship between God and Israel. It anticipates the new covenant in Christ, where God dwells with His people forever (Revelation 21:3).
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 24:7I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
- Rev 21:3I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
- Ezek 36:28You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
- Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
- Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Jer 31:1“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
- Jer 32:38and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
- Hos 2:23I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”
- Ezek 37:27My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Deut 26:17–19You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.
- Ezek 11:20that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
- Matt 22:32‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
- Song 2:16My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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