Jeremiah 33:6
in Jeremiah 33Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal unto them abundance of peace and truth.
KJV
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
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This verse in Jeremiah 33
Commentary
8 notes on this verseBehold I will bring it health and, cure - ארכה aruchah, an extensive plaister; or, as we phrase it, a plaister as large as the sore. I will repair the losses of families by numerous births, and bless the land with fertility.
This site's exposition
For this is what the LORD
on Jeremiah 33:4-9
The reversal pairs healing with pardon: “I will bring to it health and healing,” and “I will cleanse them from all the iniquity.” The aim is that the city “will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth.”
This site's exposition
I will bring to it health and healing
The healing answers Jeremiah's own lament at 8:22, where he asked why his people had no cure, as Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note. Barnes reads health and healing as a bandage laid on with medicine. Truth here means stability, a peace that lasts.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
We may apply it more generally, and observe, [1.] That peace and truth are the great subject-matter of divine revelation. These promises here lead us to the gospel of Christ, and in that God has revealed to us peace and truth, the method of true peace--truth to direct us, peace to make us easy. Grace and truth, and abundance of both, come by Jesus Christ.
I will cure - The miserable disturbed state of a nation being compared to wounds and sickness, the restoring of it to a peaceable prosperous state is fitly called its health and cure.
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The answer to Jeremiah's mournful question (Jer 8:22). cure--literally, the long linen bandage employed in dressing wounds. truth--that is, stability; I will bring forth for them abundant and permanent peace, that is, prosperity.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
I will bring it health and cure - I will lay upon it a bandage and healing, i. e., a healing bandage, a plaster with healing medicines.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הִנְנִ֧י | hini | here I | H2005 → | 316 times |
| מַעֲלֶה־ | maaleh- | [will] bring up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| לָּ֛הּ | lah | for <the> it | ||
| אֲרֻכָ֥ה | ʾarukhah | healing | H724 → | 6 times |
| וּמַרְפֵּ֖א | umarpe' | and healing | H4832 → | 16 times |
| וּרְפָאתִ֑ים | urefatim | and I will heal them | H7495 → | 67 times |
| וְגִלֵּיתִ֣י | vegileiti | and I will uncover | H1540 → | 186 times |
| לָהֶ֔ם | lahem | to <the> them | ||
| עֲתֶ֥רֶת | ʾateret | an abundance of | H6283 → | |
| שָׁל֖וֹם | shalom | well-being | H7965 → | 236 times |
| וֶאֱמֶֽת׃ | veemet | and faithfulness | H571 → | 127 times |
הִנְנִ֧יhere I
hiniH2005 →316 times
מַעֲלֶה־[will] bring up
maaleh-H5927 →890 times
לָּ֛הּfor <the> it
lah
אֲרֻכָ֥הhealing
ʾarukhahH724 →6 times
וּמַרְפֵּ֖אand healing
umarpe'H4832 →16 times
וּרְפָאתִ֑יםand I will heal them
urefatimH7495 →67 times
וְגִלֵּיתִ֣יand I will uncover
vegileitiH1540 →186 times
לָהֶ֔םto <the> them
lahem
עֲתֶ֥רֶתan abundance of
ʾateretH6283 →
שָׁל֖וֹםwell-being
shalomH7965 →236 times
וֶאֱמֶֽת׃and faithfulness
veemetH571 →127 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
it leads to
- Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- John 6:51
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is…
- John 12:47
As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
- John 3:17
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
- John 6:33
For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
- Luke 19:10
Through
Isaiah 58:8Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
it leads to
- Isaiah 52:12
For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
- Psalms 37:6
He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
- Jeremiah 30:17
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
- Isaiah 52:12
Where this verse is studied
About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
