Jeremiah 11:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

that I may perform the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.” Then I answered, “So be it, Lord.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

that I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

That I may perform the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered, Amen (so be it), O Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

that I may establish the oath which I sware unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, O Jehovah.

Common English Bible

I will fulfill my solemn pledge that I made to your ancestors to give them a land full of milk and honey, as is the case today. And I replied, “As you say, LORD!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

So shall I uphold the oath which I swore to your fathers, that I would give them a land flowing with milk and honey, just as it is this day." And I answered by saying: "Amen, O Lord."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said: Amen, O Lord.

Jeremiah 11:5 Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:17

Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, let thy word be confirmed, which thou hast spoken to thy servant David.

Psalm 105:8

He is mindful of his covenant for ever, of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,

Exodus 13:5

And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.

Jeremiah 19:12

Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.

Jeremiah 28:6

and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord make the words which you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the exiles.

Jeremiah 32:22

and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

Leviticus 20:24

But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from the peoples.

Matthew 6:13

And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.

1 Corinthians 14:16

Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how can any one in the position of an outsider say the “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?

Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them; that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.