Jeremiah 31:36

God's faithfulness Israel and the nations

³⁴ No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

³⁵ Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:

“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

³⁷ This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

³⁸ “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: “Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
KJV: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
WEB: “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.”
ASV: If these ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
DARBY: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
BLB: “If these ordinances depart from before Me, a declaration of YHWH, even the seed of Israel will cease from being a nation before Me all the days.”

ÅB: Dersom disse lover ikke lenger står ved makt for mitt åsyn, sier Herren, da skal også Israels slekt opphøre å være et folk for mitt åsyn alle dager.
OTB: "Først hvis disse bestemmelsene forsvinner fra mitt syn," sier Herren, "vil Israels etterkommere noen gang opphøre å være en nasjon for meg."
B1930: Dersom disse lover ikke lenger står ved makt for mitt åsyn, sier Herren, da skal også Israels ætt ophøre å være et folk for mitt åsyn alle dager.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 33:20–26
“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
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Psalms 89:36–37
his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
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Isaiah 54:9–10
“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
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Psalms 148:6
He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.
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Jeremiah 46:28
And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
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Amos 9:8–9
Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.
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Psalms 119:89
Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens.
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Deuteronomy 32:26
I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
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