Jeremiah 31:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Thus says the Lord: The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness [place of exile]–when Israel sought to find rest.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Thus saith Jehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

Common English Bible

² The LORD proclaims: The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness. As Israel searched for a place of rest,

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Thus says the Lord: "The people who had remained after the sword, found grace in the desert. Israel will go to his rest."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Thus saith the Lord: The people that were left and escaped from the sword found grace in the desert: Israel shall go to his rest.

Jeremiah 31:2 Cross References

Psalm 78:52

Then he led forth his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Psalm 95:11

Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest.

Exodus 1:16

“When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Exodus 12:37

And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

Exodus 2:23

In the course of those many days the king of Egypt died. And the people of Israel groaned under their bondage, and cried out for help, and their cry under bondage came up to God.

Exodus 33:14

And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Exodus 5:21

and they said to them, “The Lord look upon you and judge, because you have made us offensive in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

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.

Ezekiel 20:35

and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Hosea 11:4

I led them with cords of compassion, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.

Numbers 10:33

So they set out from the mount of the Lord three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

Numbers 14:20

Then the Lord said, “I have pardoned, according to your word;

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Deuteronomy 1:30

The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

Deuteronomy 1:33

who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

Deuteronomy 12:9

for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 2:7

For 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 8:16

who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.

Joshua 1:13

“Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, ‘The Lord your God is providing you a place of rest, and will give you this land.’