Jeremiah 3:19
Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Note from me: Heb. from after me
Note a goodly…: Heb. an heritage of glory, or, beauty
Note pleasant…: Heb. land of desire
“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- How
- Jeremiah 5:7; Hosea 11:8
- put thee
- Jeremiah 3:4; Jeremiah 31:9, 20; John 1:11–13; 2 Corinthians 6:17, 18; Galatians 3:26; Galatians 4:5–7; Ephesians 1:5; 1 John 3:1–3
- pleasant land
- Heb. land of desire.
- Jeremiah 12:10; Psalm 106:24; Ezekiel 20:6; Daniel 8:9; Daniel 11:16, 41, 45
- goodly heritage
- Heb. heritage of glory, or beauty.
- Proverbs 3:35; 1 Peter 1:3, 4
- Thou shalt
- Jeremiah 3:4; Isaiah 63:16; Isaiah 64:8; Matthew 6:8, 9; Romans 8:15–17; Galatians 4:5
- shalt not
- Jeremiah 32:39, 40; Hebrews 10:39