‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which 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.
- BSB Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things 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.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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 29:12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
- Isa 65:24It will happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
- Eph 3:20Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
- Isa 48:6You have heard it; see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
- Ps 91:15He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
- Luke 11:9–10“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
- Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Deut 4:29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Ps 145:18Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
- Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
- Rom 10:12–13For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
- Amos 3:7Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
- Acts 2:21It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
- Deut 4:7For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
- 1 Cor 2:7–11But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
- Isa 45:3I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
- Ps 25:14The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
- Rev 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
- Matt 13:35that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
- Mic 7:15“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”
- Joel 2:32It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
- 1 Kgs 8:47–50yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
- 1 Cor 1:2to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
Resources, by level
Commentaries & study tools
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.
Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.
Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
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 33:3 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
Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.