Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Parallel translations
- WEB ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.’
- KJV Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
- NKJV ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
- NASB ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
- NLT Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.
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Quick answer
God invites Jeremiah to call to Him and promises to answer and reveal great, hidden things. It is a gracious call to prayer with the promise of deeper revelation.
Overview
God invites His servant to seek Him in prayer, pledging to disclose 'great and difficult things' otherwise unknown. This shows that God reveals His purposes to those who call upon Him. The promise points beyond Jeremiah to the fuller revelation of God's saving plan in Christ, in whom the previously hidden mystery is now made known (Eph. 3:4-6).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 23
- Jer 29:12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
- Isa 65:24Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
- Eph 3:20Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- Isa 48:6You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.
- Ps 91:15When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
- Luke 11:9–10So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
- Ps 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
- Deut 4:29But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Ps 145:18The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
- Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- Rom 10:12–13For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
- Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
- Acts 2:21And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
- Deut 4:7For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
- 1 Cor 2:7–11No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.
- Isa 45:3I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.
- Ps 25:14The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
- Rev 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
- Matt 13:35So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”
- Mic 7:15As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.
- Joel 2:32And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.
- 1 Kgs 8:47–50and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
- 1 Cor 1:2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
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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.
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