Jeremiah 33:3

Bible in Basic English

Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.

Hebrew Names Version
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.

King James Version
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

English Standard Version
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

New American Standard Bible
'Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'

New Century Version
‘Judah, pray to me, and I will answer you. I will tell you important secrets you have never heard before.'

Amplified Bible
'Call to Me and I will answer you, and tell you [and even show you] great and mighty things, [things which have been confined and hidden], which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish.'

World English Bible
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Call vnto me, and I will answere thee, and shewe thee great and mightie things, which thou knowest not.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'

Berean Standard Bible
Call to Me and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Contemporary English Version
Ask me, and I will tell you things that you don't know and can't find out.

Complete Jewish Bible
‘Call out to me, and I will answer you — I will tell you great things, hidden things of which you are unaware.'"

Darby Translation
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and I will shew thee great and hidden things, which thou knowest not.

Easy-to-Read Version
‘Judah, pray to me, and I will answer you. I will tell you important secrets. You have never heard these things before.'

George Lamsa Translation
Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you know not.

Good News Translation
"Call to me, and I will answer you; I will tell you wonderful and marvelous things that you know nothing about.

Lexham English Bible
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great things and inaccessible things that you have not known.'

Literal Translation
Call to Me, and I will answer you; and I will tell you great and inscrutable things; you do not know them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast cried vnto me, and I haue herde the: I haue shewed greate and hie thinges, which were vnknowne vnto you.

American Standard Version
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and will tell thee great things, and hidden, which thou knowest not.

King James Version (1611)
Call vnto me, and I will answere thee, and shew thee great and mightie things, which thou knowest not.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Crye vnto me, and I wyll aunswere, and shewe thee great and hye thinges whiche were vnknowen vnto thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

English Revised Version
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will shew thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Crye thou to me, and Y schal here thee, and Y schal telle to thee grete thingis, and stidfast, whiche thou knowist not.

Update Bible Version
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don't know.

Webster's Bible Translation
Call to me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

New English Translation
‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.'

New King James Version
"Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'

New Living Translation
Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.

New Life Bible
‘Call to Me, and I will answer you. And I will show you great and wonderful things which you do not know.'

New Revised Standard
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Call unto me that I may answer thee, - and tell thee things great and inaccessible, which thou hast not known.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great things, and sure things which thou knowest not.

Revised Standard Version
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things which you have not known.

Young's Literal Translation
Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things -- thou hast not known them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'

Contextual Overview

¹ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying, ² These are the words of the Lord, who is doing it, the Lord who is forming it, to make it certain; the Lord is his name; ³ Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge. ⁴ For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ••• Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English.; ⁵ ••• Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. and to make them full of the dead bodies of men whom I have put to death in my wrath and in my passion, and because of whose evil-doing I have kept my face covered from this town. ⁶ See, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well; I will let them see peace and good faith in full measure. ⁷ And I will let the fate of Judah and of Israel be changed, building them up as at first. ⁸ And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me. ⁹ And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Call: Jeremiah 29:12, Deuteronomy 4:7, Deuteronomy 4:29, 1 Kings 8:47-50, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 91:15, Psalms 145:18, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Isaiah 65:24, Joel 2:32, Luke 11:9, Luke 11:10, Acts 2:21, Romans 10:12, Romans 10:13, 1 Corinthians 1:2

show: Micah 7:15, Ephesians 3:20

mighty: Heb. hidden, Psalms 25:14, Isaiah 45:3, Isaiah 48:6, Amos 3:7, Matthew 13:35, 1 Corinthians 2:7-11, Revelation 2:17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:9 - for I Judges 3:15 - cried unto 1 Samuel 23:9 - Bring 1 Samuel 23:11 - And the Lord 2 Kings 13:4 - the Lord 2 Kings 19:4 - lift up 2 Kings 19:20 - I have heard 1 Chronicles 4:10 - called 1 Chronicles 21:26 - and called Ezra 8:23 - besought Job 12:4 - calleth Job 33:26 - pray Psalms 56:9 - When Psalms 86:5 - unto all Psalms 107:19 - General Psalms 108:6 - and answer me Isaiah 22:11 - ye have Isaiah 30:19 - he will Isaiah 45:11 - Ask Lamentations 2:7 - given up Daniel 2:18 - they would Daniel 9:3 - I set Joel 2:21 - for Zechariah 10:6 - for I am Matthew 7:7 - and it Philippians 4:6 - in James 5:16 - The effectual 1 John 3:22 - whatsoever 1 John 5:14 - if

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

Genesis 33:11
Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.

Genesis 33:12
And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

Genesis 43:26
And when Joseph came in, they gave him the things which they had for him, and went down to the earth before him.

1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

Proverbs 6:3
Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

Luke 14:11
For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

John 10:4
When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Call unto me, and I will answer thee,.... This is spoken not to Jerusalem, and the inhabitants of it; but to the prophet, encouraging him to seek the Lord by prayer, promising an answer to him. So the Targum,

"pray before me, and I will receive thy prayer:''

and show thee great and mighty things; or, "fortified ones" p; which are like fortified cities, that cannot easily be come at, unless the gates are opened to enter into; and designs such as are difficult of understanding, which exceed human belief, and which reason cannot comprehend and take in; and such are the great things of the Gospel. Some copies read it, "things reserved" q; as the Targum; and so Jarchi, who interprets it of things future, of things reserved in the heart of God, and which he purposed to do; and very rightly:

which thou knowest not; until revealed; and from hence it appears, that by these great and hidden things are not meant the destruction of Jerusalem, and the seventy years' captivity, and return from that, things which Jeremiah had been made acquainted with time after time, and had prophesied of them; but spiritual blessings hereafter mentioned, some of which the deliverance from Babylon were typical of Ben Melech interprets these of comforts great and strong.

p בצרות "munita", Vatablus, Paganinus, Montanus; "fortia", Tigurine version. q נצרות "abstrusa", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "recondita", so some in Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Mighty things - Or, as in the margin. The words are probably a quotation from Isaiah 48:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 33:3. Call unto me, and I will answer thee — To me alone it belongs to reveal what is future; and the stupendous things which are now coming are known only to myself. These idolaters go to their gods to get information relative to the issue of the present commotions; but there is no light in them. Ask thou, O Jeremiah, and I will tell thee the great and mighty things which even thou knowest not.