Jeremiah 30:22
in Jeremiah 30“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
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And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
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And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
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This verse in Jeremiah 30
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
This is what the LORD says
on Jeremiah 30:18-22
The rebuilding is concrete: “the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.” The unit closes with the formula, “And you will be My people, and I will be your God,” the words that anchor the new covenant.
This site's exposition
you will be My people
This line is the promise of the Law, the Lord as their God and Israel as His people, repeated at 7:23 and 11:4. It returns at 31:33 in the new covenant. Jerome, on verse 18, sees the city rebuilt under Zerubbabel and Ezra as a first picture of this bond.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 18 and following) Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will turn the fortunes of the tents of Jacob, and have compassion on their dwellings (or captivity). And the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the temple shall be founded according to its order. And praise shall come forth from them, and the voice of those who play. And I will multiply them, and they shall not be few. (And what follows: And I will glorify them, and they shall not be made small, is not found in the Septuagint). And they shall be, says the Lord, His sons as from the beginning, and His congregation shall remain before me, and I will visit all those who trouble him. And his leader shall come forth from him, and the ruler shall be produced from among them. And I will bring him near, and he shall approach me. For who is this who has applied his heart to draw near to me, says the Lord? (And this also is not found in the Septuagint.) And you shall be my people, and I will be your God. Whose image prefigured this in Zerubabel and Ezra, when the people returned and the city began to be built in its exalted state, and the religion of the Temple was observed, and the other things contained in the book of Ezra himself. But it was more fully and completely fulfilled in the Lord Savior and the Apostles, when the city was built on its highest point, of which it is written: A city set on a hill cannot be hidden (Matthew 5:14); and the Temple was established according to its order and ceremonies, so that whatever was done in the former people carnally, would be spiritually fulfilled in the Church. Then praise and thanksgiving came forth. For this means Thoda, as all the Apostles said: Grace to you and peace (1 Corinthians 1:3). […]
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
): You shall be my people; and it is God's good work in us that makes us to him a people, a people for his name, Acts xv. It is his good-will to us that is the summary of that part of the covenant.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Ye shall be my people - The old covenant shall be renewed.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וִהְיִ֥יתֶם | vihyitem | and you will become | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לִ֖י | li | for <the> me | ||
| לְעָ֑ם | leam | <into> a people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| וְאָ֣נֹכִ֔י | veanokhi | and I | H595 → | 359 times |
| אֶהְיֶ֥ה | ʾehyeh | I will become | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לָכֶ֖ם | lakhem | for <the> you | ||
| לֵאלֹהִֽים׃ ס | lelohim | <into> God | H430 → | 2601 times |
וִהְיִ֥יתֶםand you will become
vihyitemH1961 →3559 times
לִ֖יfor <the> me
li
לְעָ֑ם<into> a people
leamH5971 →1873 times
וְאָ֣נֹכִ֔יand I
veanokhiH595 →359 times
אֶהְיֶ֥הI will become
ʾehyehH1961 →3559 times
לָכֶ֖םfor <the> you
lakhem
לֵאלֹהִֽים׃ ס<into> God
lelohimH430 →2601 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
Zechariah 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They…
it leads to
- Psalms 50:15
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
- Jeremiah 29:11–12
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
- Acts 2:21
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
- Psalms 50:15
Through
Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And…
it leads to
- 2 Corinthians 3:3
It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on…
- Hebrews 10:16
“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
- Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And…
- Ezekiel 11:19–20
And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
- Jeremiah 24:7
I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their…
- 2 Corinthians 3:3
Where this verse is studied
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, SIX BOOKS ON JEREMIAH 6:9.3-6; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.