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Jeremiah 32:38

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And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
Jeremiah 32:38 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
  • BSB They will be My people, and I will be their God.
  • NKJV They shall be My people, and I will be their God;
  • NASB They shall be My people, and I will be their God;
  • NLT They will be my people, and I will be their God.

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Quick answer

God renews the covenant pledge: they shall be His people and He their God. It restates the heart of the covenant relationship.

Overview

This formula expresses the goal of all God's redemptive dealings: a people belonging to Him and a God belonging to them. After judgment, God reaffirms this bond, showing His unbreakable commitment. The promise reaches its fullness in Christ and finds its consummation in the new creation, where God dwells with His people as their God (Rev. 21:3).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 16

  • Ezek 11:19–20And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
  • Jer 24:7And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
  • Ps 144:15Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
  • Rev 21:7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
  • Heb 8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
  • Ezek 37:27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  • Deut 26:17–19Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Gen 17:7And 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.
  • Jer 30:22And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
  • Jer 31:1At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they 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.
  • Ezek 39:28Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
  • Ezek 39:22So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
  • Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Themes, concepts, people & topics

Topics (1)
REGENERATION

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Jeremiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • VideoWatch teaching on Jeremiah 32:38YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.

  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

    Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on JeremiahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    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 32:38 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.

Original language

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And they shall be my peopleעַםand I will be their Godאֱלֹהִים
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