“At the same time,” says the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall 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.
- BSB “At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will 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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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“You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- Jer 30:24The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.”
- Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
- Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
- Gen 17:7–8I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Rom 11:26–29and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
- Jer 3:18In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.
- Ps 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
- Lev 26:12I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
- Ezek 36:28You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- Zech 10:6–7“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
- Isa 11:12–13He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
- Ezek 34:31You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ps 144:15Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
- Jer 33:24–26“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘The two families which Yahweh chose, he has cast them off?’ Thus they despise 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. This is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
- Heb 12:16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
- Jer 32:38and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
- Jer 33:14“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
- Jer 30:3For, behold, the days come,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.’”
- John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
- Jer 50:4“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.
- Ezek 11:20that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
- Jer 33:7I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
- Jer 30:10Therefore don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and no one shall make him afraid.
- Ezek 39:22So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward.
- Hos 1:11The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
- Ezek 37:16–27You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
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