Introduction

God promises that Israel will be blessed despite present problems.

Questions

1. What is the LORD's word to the nations and distant islands?

v 10 “Hear the LORD’s word, you nations,
and declare it in the distant islands. Say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

2. What is the new covenant that the LORD says he will make with the house of Israel?

v 31 to 33 “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD,
“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
and with the house of Judah:

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
which covenant of mine they broke,
although I was a husband to them,” says the LORD.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,”
says the LORD:
“I will put my law in their inward parts,
and I will write it in their heart.
I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.

3. How does God show to Jeremiah the certainty that the Jews will not be destroyed?

v 35 and 36  The LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day,

and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,

who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar;

the LORD of Armies is his name, says:

“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says the LORD,

“then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”

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Summary Points

  • v 1 to 9 The LORD loves his people Israel and will bring them back to their land
  • v 10 to 30 The LORD will gather his people from out of distant lands and they will be blessed in their own land
  • v 31 to 34 Israel will come to know their LORD and his law and he will forgive them
  • v 35 to 40 The LORD will not cast off Israel. Their existence is as sure as that of the sun, moon and stars. Jerusalem will become a holy city

    Timeline 570 BC