Jeremiah 31:27

Complete Jewish Bible

At that time, just as I used to watch over them with the intent to uproot, break down, overthrow, destroy and do harm; so then I will watch over them to build and plant," says Adonai .

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of people and the seed of animals.

Hebrew Names Version
Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Yisra'el and the house of Yehudah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal.

King James Version
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord , that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

English Standard Version
"Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord , when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.

New American Standard Bible
"Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of mankind and the seed of animals.

New Century Version
The Lord says, "The time is coming when I will help the families of Israel and Judah and their children and animals to grow.

Amplified Bible
"Behold (listen carefully), the days are coming," says the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

World English Bible
Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, the dayes come, saith the Lorde, that I will sowe the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah with the seede of man and with the seede of beast.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Behold, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

Berean Standard Bible
"The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the offspring of man and of beast.

Contemporary English Version
Someday, Israel and Judah will be my field where my people and their livestock will grow.

Darby Translation
Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah [with] the seed of man and the seed of beast.

Easy-to-Read Version
"The days are coming," says the Lord , "when I will help the family of Israel and Judah to grow. I will help their children and animals to grow too. It will be like planting and caring for a plant.

George Lamsa Translation
Behold the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

Good News Translation
"I, the Lord , say that the time is coming when I will fill the land of Israel and Judah with people and animals.

Lexham English Bible
"Look, the days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humankind, and with the seed of animals.

Literal Translation
Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, even I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and the seed of animal.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde (saieth the LORDE) the dayes come, that I will sowe the house of Israel and the house of Iuda, with men and with catell.

American Standard Version
Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

Bible in Basic English
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will have Israel and Judah planted with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down, and to overthrow and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith the LORD.

King James Version (1611)
Behold, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde saith the Lorde, the dayes come that I wyll sowe the house of Israel and the house of Iuda with men and with cattell.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him.

English Revised Version
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! daies comen, seith the Lord, and Y schal sowe the hous of Israel and the hous of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of werk beestis.

Update Bible Version
Look, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, the days come saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

New English Translation
"Indeed, a time is coming," says the Lord , "when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah.

New King James Version
"Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.

New Living Translation
"The day is coming," says the Lord , "when I will greatly increase the human population and the number of animals here in Israel and Judah.

New Life Bible
"See, the days are coming," says the Lord, "when I will plant the people of Israel and the people of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of animal.

New Revised Standard
The days are surely coming, says the Lord , when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh - That I will sow, The house of Israel, and The house of Judah, With the seed of men, and With the seed of beasts;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of beasts.

Revised Standard Version
"Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sown the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, With seed of man, and seed of beast.

THE MESSAGE
"Be ready. The time's coming"— God 's Decree—"when I will plant people and animals in Israel and Judah, just as a farmer plants seed. And in the same way that earlier I relentlessly pulled up and tore down, took apart and demolished, so now I am sticking with them as they start over, building and planting.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

Contextual Overview

²⁷ At that time, just as I used to watch over them with the intent to uproot, break down, overthrow, destroy and do harm; so then I will watch over them to build and plant," says Adonai . ²⁸ "When those days come they will no longer say, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.' ²⁹ Rather, each will die for his own sin; every one who eats sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge. ³⁰ "Here, the days are coming," says Adonai, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Isra'el and with the house of Y'hudah. ³¹ It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, violated my covenant, even though I, for my part, was a husband to them," says Adonai . ³² "For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra'el after those days," says Adonai : "I will put my Torah within them and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³³ No longer will any of them teach his fellow community member or his brother, ‘Know Adonai '; for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest; because I will forgive their wickednesses and remember their sins no more." ³⁴ This is what Adonai says, who gives the sun as light for the day, who ordained the laws for the moon and stars to provide light for the night, who stirs up the sea until its waves roar — Adonai -Tzva'ot is his name:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the days: Jeremiah 31:31

that I: Jeremiah 30:19, Ezekiel 36:9, Hosea 2:23, Zechariah 10:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:17 - breed 1 Kings 8:34 - forgive the sin 2 Chronicles 30:9 - so that they shall Jeremiah 3:16 - when Jeremiah 23:5 - the days Jeremiah 30:3 - the days Jeremiah 31:38 - the days Jeremiah 33:14 - General Ezekiel 36:10 - I will Ezekiel 36:11 - I will multiply Ezekiel 36:38 - the waste Ezekiel 37:26 - multiply Zechariah 2:4 - Jerusalem Zechariah 8:5 - playing Hebrews 8:8 - the days

Cross-References

Genesis 4:21
His brother's name was Yuval; and he was the ancestor of all who play lyre and flute.

Genesis 31:3
Adonai said to Ya‘akov, "Return to the land of your ancestors, to your kinsmen; I will be with you."

Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I see by the way your father looks that he feels differently toward me than before; but the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31:11
Then, in the dream, the angel of God said to me, ‘Ya‘akov!' and I replied, ‘Here I am.'

Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Le'ah answered him, "We no longer have any inheritance from our father's possessions;

Genesis 31:20
and Ya‘akov outwitted Lavan the Arami by not telling him of his intended flight.

Genesis 31:21
So he fled with everything he had: he departed, crossed the [Euphrates] River and set out for the hill-country of Gil‘ad.

Genesis 31:23
Lavan took his kinsmen with him and spent the next seven days pursuing Ya‘akov, overtaking him in the hill-country of Gil‘ad.

Genesis 31:26
Lavan said to Ya‘akov, "What do you mean by deceiving me and carrying off my daughters as if they were captives taken in war?

Genesis 31:31
Ya‘akov answered Lavan, "Because I was afraid. I said, ‘Suppose you take your daughters away from me by force?'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,.... Or, "are coming" k; and will be here shortly:

that I will sow the house of Israel, and the house of Judah, with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast; that is, will multiply both man and beast, so that there shall be a great increase; whereas, through war, famine, pestilence, and captivity, their number was greatly reduced. The allusion is to the sowing of a field with seed, which in due time springs up, and produces a large increase. Some understand this of the spiritual blessing of regeneration; but that is not of corruptible seed, such as is here mentioned, but of incorruptible seed, by the word of God: though this may be a type of the fruitfulness of the church in Gospel times; since afterwards an account is given of the new covenant, which should take place in those times.

k באים "venientes", Montanus, Schmidt; "venturi sunt", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet shows that the happiness of Israel and Judah, united in one prosperous nation, will rest upon the consciousness that their chastisement has been the result of sins which they have themselves committed, and that God’s covenant depends not upon external sanctions, but upon a renewed heart.

Jeremiah 31:27

So rapid shall be the increase that it shall seem as if children and young cattle sprang up out of the ground.

Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 31:30

A sour grape - Better, sour grapes. The idea that Jeremiah and Ezekiel (marginal reference) modified the terms of the second Commandment arises from a mistaken exegesis of their words. Compare Jeremiah 32:18; Deuteronomy 24:16. The obdurate Jews made it a reproach to the divine justice that the nation was to be sorely visited for Manasseh’s sin. But this was only because generation after generation had, instead of repenting, repeated the sins of that evil time, and even in a worse form. justice must at length have its course. The acknowledgment that each man died for his own iniquity was a sign of their return to a more just and right state of feeling.

Jeremiah 31:31

A time is foretold which shall be to the nation as marked an epoch as was the Exodus. God at Sinai made a covenant with His people, of which the sanctions were material, or (where spiritual) materially understood. Necessarily therefore the Mosaic Church was temporary, but the sanctions of Jeremiah’s Church are spiritual - written in the heart - and therefore it must take the place of the former covenant Hebrews 8:13, and must last forever. The prophecy was fulfilled when those Jews who accepted Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, expanded the Jewish into the Christian Church.

Jeremiah 31:32

Although ... - i. e., although as their husband (or, “lord” (Baal, compare Hosea 2:16)) I had lawful authority over them. The translation in Hebrews 8:9 agrees with the Septuagint here, but the balance of authority is in favor of the King James Version.

Jeremiah 31:33

The old law could be broken Jeremiah 31:32; to remedy this God gives, not a new law, but a new power to the old law. It used to be a mere code of morals, external to man, and obeyed as a duty. In Christianity, it becomes an inner force, shaping man’s character from within.

Jeremiah 31:34

I will forgive their iniquity - The foundation of the new covenant is the free forgiveness of sins (compare Matthew 1:21). It is the sense of this full unmerited love which so affects the heart as to make obedience henceforward an inner necessity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 31:27. I will sow - with the seed of man and with the seed of beast. — I will multiply both men and cattle.