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At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:1 · King James Version
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.”
  • BSB “At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will 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.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 29

  • Jer 30:22And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
  • Jer 30:24The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
  • Zech 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
  • Isa 41:10Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
  • Gen 17:7–8And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
  • Rom 11:26–29And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
  • Jer 3:18In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
  • Ps 48:14For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
  • Lev 26:12And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
  • Ezek 36:28And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
  • Zech 10:6–7And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
  • Isa 11:12–13And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
  • Ezek 34:31And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Ps 144:15Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
  • Jer 33:24–26Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
  • Jer 23:6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
  • Jer 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  • Heb 12:16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
  • Jer 32:38And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
  • Jer 33:14Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
  • Jer 30:3For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
  • John 20:17Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
  • Jer 50:4In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
  • Ezek 11:20That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
  • Jer 33:7And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
  • Jer 30:10Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
  • Ezek 39:22So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
  • Hos 1:11Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
  • Ezek 37:16–27Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:

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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 31:1 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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