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Jeremiah 31:2

The Lord has said, Grace came in the waste land to a people kept safe from the sword, even to Israel on the way to his resting-place.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Joy;   Remnant;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Expiation, Propitiation;   Grace;   Jeremiah;   Mercy, Merciful;   Wilderness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   Madmen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Admonition;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 8;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what the Lord says:
Hebrew Names Version
Thus says the LORD, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Yisra'el, when I went to cause him to rest.
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord , The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
English Standard Version
Thus says the Lord : "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,
New American Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: "The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness— Israel, when it went to find its rest."
New Century Version
This is what the Lord says: "The people who were not killed by the enemy's sword found help in the desert. I came to give rest to Israel."
Amplified Bible
Thus says the LORD, "The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness [of exile]— Israel (the Northern Kingdom), when it went to find its rest."
World English Bible
Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus saith the Lord, The people which escaped the sworde, founde grace in the wildernes: he walked before Israel to cause him to rest.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus says Yahweh,"The people who survived the swordFound grace in the wilderness—Israel, when it went to find its relief."
Berean Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: "The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest."
Contemporary English Version
In the desert I was kind to those who escaped death. I gave them peace, and when the time is right, I'll do the same for you. I, the Lord , have spoken.
Complete Jewish Bible
From a distance Adonai appeared to me, [saying,] "I love you with an everlasting love; this is why in my grace I draw you to me.
Darby Translation
Thus saith Jehovah: The people [that were] left of the sword have found grace in the wilderness, [even] Israel, when I go to give him rest.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord says: "The people who escaped the enemy's sword will find comfort in the desert. Israel will go there looking for rest."
George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD: The people who escaped from the sword found compassion in the wilderness when Israel went into exile.
Good News Translation
In the desert I showed mercy to those people who had escaped death. When the people of Israel longed for rest,
Lexham English Bible
Thus says Yahweh: "The people of the survivors of the sword found grace in the desert; Israel going to find their rest."
Literal Translation
So says Jehovah, Israel, the people, the survivors of the sword, have found grace in the wilderness, I will go to give rest to him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus saieth the LORDE: The people of Israel which escaped in ye wildernes from the swearde, founde grace to come in to their rest.
American Standard Version
Thus saith Jehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'From afar the LORD appeared unto me.' 'Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with affection have I drawn thee.
King James Version (1611)
Thus saith the Lord; The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wildernesse, euen Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus saith the Lord: The people of Israel which escaped in the wildernesse from the sworde, founde grace to come into their rest.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There is no longer any healing for Moab, nor glorying in Esebon: he has devised evils against her: we have cut her off from being a nation, and she shall be completely still: after thee shall go a sword;
English Revised Version
Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord seith these thingis, The puple that was left of swerd, foond grace in desert; Israel schal go to his reste.
Update Bible Version
Thus says Yahweh, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the LORD, The people [who were] left by the sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
New English Translation
The Lord says, "The people of Israel who survived death at the hands of the enemy will find favor in the wilderness as they journey to find rest for themselves.
New King James Version
Thus says the LORD: "The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness-- Israel, when I went to give him rest."
New Living Translation
This is what the Lord says: "Those who survive the coming destruction will find blessings even in the barren land, for I will give rest to the people of Israel."
New Life Bible
The Lord says, "The people who were not killed by the sword found loving-favor in the desert, when Israel looked for rest."
New Revised Standard
Thus says the Lord : The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, saith Yahweh, - There hath found favour in the desert people escaped from the sword, - I must go to cause him, even Israel, to rest.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord: The people that were left and escaped from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall go to his rest.
Revised Standard Version
Thus says the LORD: "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,
Young's Literal Translation
Thus said Jehovah: Found grace in the wilderness Hath a people remaining from the sword Going to cause it to rest -- Israel.
THE MESSAGE
This is the way God put it: "They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!" God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love! And so now I'll start over with you and build you up again, dear virgin Israel. You'll resume your singing, grabbing tambourines and joining the dance. You'll go back to your old work of planting vineyards on the Samaritan hillsides, And sit back and enjoy the fruit— oh, how you'll enjoy those harvests! The time's coming when watchmen will call out from the hilltops of Ephraim: ‘On your feet! Let's go to Zion, go to meet our God !'"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus says the LORD, "The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness— Israel, when it went to find its rest."

Contextual Overview

1 At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people. 2 The Lord has said, Grace came in the waste land to a people kept safe from the sword, even to Israel on the way to his resting-place. 3 From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me. 4 I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad. 5 Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit. 6 For there will be a day when those who get in the grapes on the hills of Ephraim will be crying, Up! let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God. 7 For the Lord has said, Make a glad song for Jacob and give a cry on the top of the mountains: give the news, give praise, and say, The Lord has given salvation to his people, even to the rest of Israel. 8 See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here. 9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The people: Exodus 1:16, Exodus 1:22, Exodus 2:23, Exodus 5:21, Exodus 12:37, Exodus 14:8-12, Exodus 15:9, Exodus 15:10, Exodus 17:8-13

found: Jeremiah 2:2, Deuteronomy 1:30, Deuteronomy 1:33, Deuteronomy 2:7, Deuteronomy 8:2, Deuteronomy 8:3, Deuteronomy 8:16, Nehemiah 9:12-15, Psalms 78:14-16, Psalms 78:23-29, Psalms 78:52, Psalms 105:37-43, Psalms 136:16-24, Isaiah 63:7-14, Ezekiel 20:14-17

when: Numbers 10:33, Deuteronomy 12:9, Psalms 95:11, Isaiah 63:14, Matthew 11:28, Hebrews 4:8, Hebrews 4:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:8 - General Genesis 33:10 - if now Numbers 32:5 - if we have Song of Solomon 3:6 - this Hosea 9:10 - found

Cross-References

Genesis 4:5
But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.
Genesis 30:27
And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.
Genesis 31:9
So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.
Genesis 31:11
And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.
Exodus 4:10
And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.
Deuteronomy 19:4
This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;
Deuteronomy 28:54
That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;
1 Samuel 19:7
Then Jonathan sent for David and gave him word of all these things. And Jonathan took David to Saul, who kept him by his side as in the past.
Daniel 3:19
Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: and he gave orders that the fire was to be heated up seven times more than it was generally heated.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord, the people [which were] left of the sword,.... Which were not consumed by the sword of Pharaoh, who perished not through his cruel edicts, and by his sword, when drawn at the Red sea; nor by the sword of the Amalekites and Amorites; or of their own brethren, who sometimes, for their sins, were ordered to slay many, as on account of the molten calf, and joining to Baalpeor: but there was a remnant that escaped, who

found grace in the wilderness; in the sight of God, who went before them, protected and defended them from their enemies; gave them his holy law, his statutes, and his judgments; fed them with manna and quails; clave the rocks, and gave them water to drink; and supplied them with everything necessary for them, Psalms 78:5;

[even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest; went before him in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; and in the ark, the symbol of his presence; and not only to search out a resting place for them for a few days, but to bring them to Canaan, the land of rest, which he had promised them, Exodus 13:21; now this past instance of divine goodness is mentioned, to encourage faith in the fulfilment of the above promise. The whole is paraphrased by the Targum thus,

"these things saith the Lord, who gave mercies to the people that came out of Egypt; he supplied their necessities in the wilderness, when they fled from before those who slay with the sword; he led them by his word, to cause Israel to dwell in a place of rest.''

Some render the words in the future, "shall find grace", c. "shall go to his rest", c. and so apply it to the Jews that escaped the sword of the Chaldeans, and found favour in the wilderness of the people into which they were brought, and as they returned into their own land from the captivity. And it, nay be also applied to the Jews that were left of the sword of the Romans in their last destruction, who have found much favour among the nations as they do in ours, and others, now and who in time will return to their own land, and be in rest, Jeremiah 30:10. Yea, it is applicable enough to the church and people of God in their present state; who are left of the sword of the Papists, and are now in the wilderness, where they are nourished for a time, and times, and half a time; and before long will be brought into a state of settled rest and tranquillity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The people which were left of the sword - A promise of the restoration of the ten tribes to their land.

The wilderness - Either the desert which lay between Assyria and Palestine; or more probably an allusion to the wilderness of Mount Sinai.

Found grace ... rest - Rather, “shall certainly find grace; I will go to give Israel rest.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 31:2. The people which were left of the sword — Those of the ten tribes that had escaped death by the sword of the Assyrians.

Found grace in the wilderness — The place of their exile; a wilderness, compared to their own land.-Dahler. See Isaiah 40:3.


 
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