“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
- BSB “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
- 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 30:8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
- Jer 36:32Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.
- Rev 1:19Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter;
- Jer 36:2–4“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
- Rev 1:11saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
- Hab 2:2–3Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
- 1 Cor 10:11Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
- 2 Pet 1:21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
- Jer 51:60–64Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
- Rom 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- Isa 8:1Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;
- Dan 12:4But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”
- Deut 31:19“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
- Exod 17:14Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
- Job 19:23–24“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
- Deut 31:22–27So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
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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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