“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
- KJV Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
- NKJV “Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying: ‘Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you.
- NASB “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book.
- NLT “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Write down for the record everything I have said to you, Jeremiah.
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Quick answer
God commands Jeremiah to write all His words in a book. The promises of restoration are to be preserved for future generations.
Overview
Writing the message ensured it would endure beyond the prophet's lifetime to encourage exiles who would live to see its fulfillment. The permanence of the written word reflects the reliability of God's promises. It models how Scripture itself preserves God's faithful word across time.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Isa 30:8Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
- Jer 36:32Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
- Rev 1:19Therefore write down the things you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that will happen after this.
- Jer 36:2–4“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
- Rev 1:11saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
- Hab 2:2–3Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
- 1 Cor 10:11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
- 2 Pet 1:21For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
- Jer 51:60–64Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
- Rom 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
- Isa 8:1Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
- Dan 12:4But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
- Deut 31:19Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.
- Exod 17:14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Job 19:23–24I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
- Deut 31:22–27So that very day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites.
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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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