“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
Parallel translations
- WEB “At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
- KJV At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
- NKJV “At the same time,” says the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”
- NASB “At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”
- NLT “In that day,” says the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.
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Quick answer
God declares that He will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be His people. The covenant embraces the whole nation, reunited.
Overview
Continuing the covenant promise of 30:22, God affirms a comprehensive relationship with all Israel's families. This restored unity reverses the division of the kingdoms and the scattering of exile. It looks toward the one people of God gathered in Christ from every family and nation.
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- Jer 30:22“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
- Jer 30:24The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this.
- Zech 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
- Isa 41:10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
- Gen 17:7–8I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Rom 11:26–29And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
- Jer 3:18In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
- Ps 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
- Lev 26:12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
- Ezek 36:28Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
- Zech 10:6–7I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.
- Isa 11:12–13He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
- Ezek 34:31‘You are My flock, the sheep of My pasture, My people, and I am your God,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ps 144:15Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
- Jer 33:24–26“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
- Jer 23:6In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Heb 12:16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
- Jer 32:38They will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Jer 33:14Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
- Jer 30:3For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
- John 20:17“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
- Jer 50:4“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
- Ezek 11:20so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Jer 33:7I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.
- Jer 30:10As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
- Ezek 39:22From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.
- Hos 1:11Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel.
- Ezek 37:16–27“And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him.’
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