Jeremiah 31:22 “How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has creat…”

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land— a woman will shelter a man.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

World English Bible

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”

American Standard Version

How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the earth: A woman shall encompass a man.

Geneva Bible 1599

How long wilt thou goe astray, O thou rebellious daughter? for the Lord hath created a newe thing in the earth: A WOMAN shall compasse a man.

Darby Translation

How long wilt thou wander about, thou backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath created a new thing on the earth, a woman shall encompass a man.

Young's Literal Translation

Till when dost thou withdraw thyself, O backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath prepared a new thing in the land, Woman doth compass man.

Bible in Basic English

How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.

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Cross references

“How”

Jeremiah 2:18 Jeremiah 2:36 Jeremiah 4:14 Hosea 8:5 Jeremiah 2:23 Jeremiah 13:27

Jeremiah 2:18 · BSB

Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile ? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates ?

Jeremiah 2:36 · BSB

How impulsive you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

Jeremiah 4:14 · BSB

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Hosea 8:5 · BSB

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Jeremiah 2:23 · BSB

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

Jeremiah 13:27 · BSB

Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields— I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

“backsliding”

Jeremiah 7:24 Jeremiah 49:4 Jeremiah 3:6 Jeremiah 3:22 Hosea 4:16 Hosea 11:7

Jeremiah 7:24 · BSB

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 49:4 · BSB

Why do you boast of your valleys— your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’

Jeremiah 3:6 · BSB

Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

Jeremiah 3:22 · BSB

“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

Hosea 4:16 · BSB

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

Hosea 11:7 · BSB

My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.

“created”

Numbers 16:30

Numbers 16:30 · BSB

But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the…

“A woman”

Matthew 1:21 Genesis 3:15 Isaiah 7:14 Galatians 4:4 Luke 1:34 Luke 1:35

Matthew 1:21 · BSB

She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

Genesis 3:15 · BSB

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. ”

Isaiah 7:14 · BSB

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

Galatians 4:4 · BSB

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Luke 1:34 · BSB

“How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

Luke 1:35 · BSB

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21“Set up the road markers, put up the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.

23This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore them from captivity, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.’

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