Jeremiah 31:2

God's Relationship With His People

¹ “At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.” ² Thus says the Lord,
“The people who survived the sword
Found grace in the wilderness—
Israel, when it went to find its rest.”
³ The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying,
“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.

By the Sword

In the Wilderness

Lord Said

People of Israel

Says the Lord

Thus Says the Lord

In The Desert

This Is What The Lord Says

Israel

Jehovah

Numbers 10:33

Thus they set out from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey, with the ark of the covenant of the Lord journeying in front of them for the three days, to seek out a resting place for them.

Deuteronomy 1:33

who goes before you on your way, to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.

Psalm 95:11

“Therefore I swore in My anger,
Truly they shall not enter into My rest.”

Exodus 1:16

and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.”

Exodus 2:23

Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God.

Exodus 5:21

They said to them, “May the Lord look upon you and judge you, for you have made us odious in Pharaoh’s sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

Exodus 12:37

Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.

Exodus 14:8-12

The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he chased after the sons of Israel as the sons of Israel were going out boldly.

Exodus 15:9-10

“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;
My desire shall be gratified against them;
I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.’

Exodus 17:8-13

Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.

Exodus 33:14

And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Numbers 14:20

So the Lord said, “I have pardoned them according to your word;

Deuteronomy 1:30

The Lord your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

Deuteronomy 2:7

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all that you have done; He has known your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.”’

Deuteronomy 8:2-3

You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 8:16

In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end.

Deuteronomy 12:9

for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you.

Nehemiah 9:12-15

“And with a pillar of cloud You led them by day,
And with a pillar of fire by night
To light for them the way
In which they were to go.

Psalm 78:14-16

Then He led them with the cloud by day
And all the night with a light of fire.

Psalm 78:23-29

Yet He commanded the clouds above
And opened the doors of heaven;

Psalm 78:52

But He led forth His own people like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

Psalm 105:37-43

Then He brought them out with silver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

Psalm 136:16-24

To Him who led His people through the wilderness,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

Isaiah 63:7-14

I shall make mention of the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, the praises of the Lord,
According to all that the Lord has granted us,
And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
Which He has granted them according to His compassion
And according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“I remember concerning you the devotion of your youth,
The love of your betrothals,
Your following after Me in the wilderness,
Through a land not sown.

Ezekiel 20:14-17

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose sight I had brought them out.

Matthew 11:28

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

Hebrews 4:8-9

For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.