Christian Standard Bible
Jeremiah 33:3
3Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.
Jeremiah 33:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
- New International Version (NIV)‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Context of Jeremiah 33:3
1While he was still confined in the guard’s courtyard, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time: 2“The Lord who made the earth, the Lord who forms it to establish it, the Lord is his name, says this: Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know. 4For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and the palaces of Judah’s kings, the ones torn down for defense against the assault ramps and the sword: 5The people coming to fight the Chaldeans will fill the houses with the corpses of their own men that I strike down in my wrath and fury. I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.
Read all of Jeremiah 33Jeremiah 33:3 word by word
קְרָ֥א אֵלַ֖י וְאֶעֱנֶ֑ךָּ וְאַגִּ֧ידָה לְּךָ֛ גְּדֹל֥וֹת וּבְצֻר֖וֹת לֹ֥א יְדַעְתָּֽם׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 33:3
- Jeremiah 29:12You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
- Deuteronomy 4:7For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him?
- 1 Kings 8:47and when they come to their senses in the land where they were deported and repent and petition you in their captors’ land: “We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked,”
- Psalms 50:15Call on me in a day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will honor me.”
- Psalms 91:15When he calls out to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will rescue him and give him honor.
- Psalms 145:18The Lord is near all who call out to him, all who call out to him with integrity.
- Isaiah 55:6Seek the Lord while he may be found; call to him while he is near.
- Isaiah 65:24Even before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will hear.
- Joel 2:32Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, for there will be an escape for those on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, as the Lord promised, among the survivors the Lord calls.
- Luke 11:9“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you.
- Acts 2:21Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
- Romans 10:12since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord of all richly blesses all who call on him.
- 1 Corinthians 1:2To the church of God at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord — both their Lord and ours.
- Micah 7:15I will perform miracles for them as in the days of your exodus from the land of Egypt.
- Ephesians 3:20Now to him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us —
- Psalms 25:14The secret counsel of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he reveals his covenant to them.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 33:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Call unto eve, 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Mighty things - Or, as in the margin. The words are probably a quotation from Isaiah 48:6.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-26As Jerusalem and the king of Judah faced invaders, God gave Jeremiah insight into His long-term plan. The promises would only come true after the destruction. The nation's hope was not in avoiding destruction but in the purification it would bring. Jeremiah was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace from late 587 BC, during the siege, until Jerusalem fell in August 586 BC (see Jeremiah 32:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Call ... I will answer--(Jr 29:12; Psa 91:15). Jeremiah, as the representative of the people of God, is urged by God to pray for that which God has determined to grant; namely, the restoration. God's promises are not to slacken, but to quicken the prayers of His people (Psa 132:13, 17; Is 62:6, 7). mighty things--Hebrew, "inaccessible things," that is, incredible, hard to man's understanding [Maurer], namely, the restoration of the Jews, an event…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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