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I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 31:14 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.
  • KJV And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
  • NKJV I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the Lord.”
  • NASB “I will refresh the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people will be satisfied with My goodness,” declares the Lord.
  • NLT The priests will enjoy abundance, and my people will feast on my good gifts. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

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Quick answer

God will satisfy the priests with abundance and fill His people with His goodness. Both worship and the worshipers will be richly supplied.

Overview

The renewed worship is marked by abundant provision for the priests and full satisfaction for all the people. This pictures a restored fellowship in which God lavishly meets the needs of His own. Ultimately our souls are satisfied in Christ, the bread of life (John 6:35).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • Jer 31:25for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”
  • 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
  • Jer 33:9So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.
  • Rev 5:10You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
  • Ps 107:9For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
  • Matt 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
  • Song 5:1I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
  • Rev 7:16–17‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’
  • Isa 66:10–14Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,
  • Zech 9:15–17The LORD of Hosts will shield them. They will destroy and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and roar as with wine. And they will be filled like sprinkling bowls, drenched like the corners of the altar.
  • Isa 25:6On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
  • Ps 36:8They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
  • Ps 63:5My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
  • Isa 61:6But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
  • 2 Chr 6:41Now therefore, arise, O LORD God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.
  • Ps 132:9May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
  • Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
  • Ps 132:16I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints will sing out in joy.
  • Ps 65:4Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.
  • Eph 3:19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
  • Isa 55:1–3“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
  • Neh 10:39For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”
  • Ps 17:15As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.
  • Deut 33:8–11Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Jeremiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

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.

How Jeremiah 31:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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