Jeremiah 31:2

Jeremiah 31:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
• New International Version (NIV)This is what the Lord says: “The people who survive the sword will find favor in the wilderness; I will come to give rest to Israel.”
• New King James Version (NKJV)Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness— Israel, when I went to give him rest.”
• New Living Translation (NLT)This is what the Lord says: “Those who survive the coming destruction will find blessings even in the barren land, for I will give rest to the people of Israel.”

Context of Jeremiah 31:2

1"At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people." Thus says the Lord: "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest, 3the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. 4Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

Jeremiah 31:2 word by word

כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה מָצָ֥א חֵן֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר עַ֖ם שְׂרִ֣ידֵי חָ֑רֶב הָל֥וֹךְ לְהַרְגִּיע֖וֹ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thus saithאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• The peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• leftשָׂרִידώârîyd · survivorH8300
• of the swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• foundמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• graceחֵןchên · favorH2580
• in the wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057
• Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• when I wentהָלַךְhâlak · to go: comeH1980
• to cause him to restרָגַעrâga‛ · to restH7280

Cross-references for Jeremiah 31:2

• Exodus 1:16"When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live."
• Exodus 2:23During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
• Exodus 5:21and they said to them, "The Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."
• Exodus 12:37And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
• Exodus 14:8And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly.
• Exodus 15:9The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.'
• Exodus 17:8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
• Jeremiah 2:2"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
• Deuteronomy 1:30The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
• Deuteronomy 2:7For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."'
• Deuteronomy 8:2And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
• Nehemiah 9:12By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.
• Psalms 78:14In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
• Psalms 105:37Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
• Psalms 136:16to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures forever;
• Isaiah 63:7I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 31:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2The people which were left of the sword - Those of the ten tribes that had escaped death by the sword of the Assyrians. Found grace in the wilderness - The place of their exile; a wilderness, compared to their own land. - Dahler. See Isaiah 40:3;Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2The people which were left of the sword - A promise of the restoration of the ten tribes to their land. The wilderness - Either the desert which lay between Assyria and Palestine; or more probably an allusion to the wilderness of Mount Sinai. Found grace … rest - Rather, “shall certainly find grace; I will go to give Israel rest.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The Lord sent his message to those who would survive the destruction when Jerusalem fell in 586 BC.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. Upon the grace manifested to Israel "in the wilderness" God grounds His argument for renewing His favors to them now in their exile; because His covenant is "everlasting" (Jr 31:3), and changes not. The same argument occurs in Ho 13:5, 9, 10; 14:4, 5, 8. Babylon is fitly compared to the "wilderness," as in both alike Israel was as a stranger far from his appointed "rest" or home, and Babylon is in Is 40:3 called a "desert" (compare Jr 50:12). I went to…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Israel
• Israel, Israelites
• Jacob, Israel
• Remember
• Unaccustomed
• Jeremiah (2)

Commentaries on Jeremiah 31

• 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