Jeremiah 31:22

God rebukes Israel's wavering and announces a 'new thing': 'a woman shall encompass a man.' The meaning of this phrase is genuinely debated among faithful interpreters.

Cross-references · 25

• Jer 49:4Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’
• Jer 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
• Matt 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
• Luke 1:34–35“How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
• Jer 2:18Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
• Hos 8:5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
• Jer 3:6Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
• Jer 2:23“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
• Num 16:30But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
• Jer 3:22“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
• Isa 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
• Hos 11:7My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
• Gen 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
• Jer 2:36How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
• Jer 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
• Hos 4:16For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?
• Jer 3:14“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
• Jer 13:27Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
• Jer 8:4–6So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
• Jer 3:11–12And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
• Hos 14:4I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
• Zech 7:11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
• Jer 14:7Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
• Gal 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Jer 3:8She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.

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