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Contemporary English Version

Jeremiah 33:3

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Answer Promised;   Prayer;   Promises, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Hiding;   Israel/jews;   Knowledge;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prayer, Answers to;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;  

Devotionals:

- Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for June 29;  

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.
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.
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.
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

1I was still being held prisoner in the courtyard of the palace guards when the Lord told me: I am the Lord , and I created the whole world. 3 Ask me, and I will tell you things that you don't know and can't find out. 4Many of the houses in Jerusalem and some of the buildings at the royal palace have been torn down to be used in repairing the walls to keep out the Babylonian attackers. Now there are empty spaces where the buildings once stood. But I am furious, and these spaces will be filled with the bodies of the people I kill. The people of Jerusalem will cry out to me for help, but they are evil, and I will ignore their prayers. 6 Then someday, I will heal this place and my people as well, and let them enjoy unending peace. 7 I will give this land to Israel and Judah once again, and I will make them as strong as they were before. 8 They sinned and rebelled against me, but I will forgive them and take away their guilt. 9 When that happens, all nations on earth will see the good things I have done for Jerusalem, and how I have given it complete peace. The nations will celebrate and praise and honor me, but they will also tremble with fear.

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
Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. He quickly ran to meet them, bowed with his face to the ground,
Genesis 33:11
Please accept these gifts I brought to you. God has been good to me, and I have everything I need." Jacob kept insisting until Esau accepted the gifts.
Genesis 33:12
"Let's get ready to travel," Esau said. "I'll go along with you."
Genesis 42:6
Since Joseph was governor of Egypt and in charge of selling grain, his brothers came to him and bowed with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 43:26
When Joseph came home, they gave him the gifts they had brought, and they bowed down to him.
1 Samuel 2:5
People who once had plenty to eat must now hire themselves out for only a piece of bread. But you give the hungry more than enough to eat. A woman did not have a child, and you gave her seven, but a woman who had many was left with none.
Proverbs 6:3
and you are now in the power of someone else. Here is what you should do: Go and beg for permission to call off the agreement.
Ecclesiastes 10:4
Don't give up your job when your boss gets angry. If you stay calm, you'll be forgiven.
Luke 14:11
If you put yourself above others, you will be put down. But if you humble yourself, you will be honored.
John 10:4
When he has led out all of his sheep, he walks in front of them, and they follow, because they know 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.


 
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