Jeremiah 31:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Thus says the Lord: The people who escaped the sword find favor in the wilderness. As Israel comes forward to receive rest,

Cross References

Psalm 78:52

Then God led forth his people like sheep, guided them like a flock through the wilderness.

Psalm 95:11

Therefore I swore in my anger: “They shall never enter my rest.”

Exodus 1:16

“When you act as midwives for the Hebrew women, look on the birthstool: if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she may live.”

Exodus 1:22

Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “Throw into the Nile every boy that is born, but you may let all the girls live.”

Exodus 12:37

The Israelites set out from Rameses for Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, not counting the children.

Exodus 2:23

A long time passed, during which the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their bondage and cried out, and from their bondage their cry for help went up to God.

Exodus 33:14

The Lord answered: I myself will go along, to give you rest.

Exodus 5:21

and said to them, “The Lord look upon you and judge! You have made us offensive to Pharaoh and his servants, putting a sword into their hands to kill us.” Renewal of God’s Promise.

Jeremiah 2:2

Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear! I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, Following me in the wilderness, in a land unsown.

Ezekiel 20:35

I will lead you to the wilderness of the peoples and enter into judgment with you face to face.

Hosea 11:4

I drew them with human cords, with bands of love; I fostered them like those who raise an infant to their cheeks; I bent down to feed them.

Numbers 10:33

From the mountain of the Lord they made a journey of three days, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them for the three-day journey to seek out a resting place for them.

Numbers 14:20

The Lord answered: I pardon them as you have asked.

Matthew 11:28

“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

Deuteronomy 1:30

The Lord, your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he acted with you before your very eyes in Egypt,

Deuteronomy 1:33

who journeys before you to find you a place to camp—by night in the fire, and by day in the cloud, to show you the way to go.

Deuteronomy 12:9

since you have not yet reached your resting place, the heritage which the Lord, your God, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 2:7

Surely, the Lord, your God, has blessed you in all your undertakings; he has been concerned about your journey through this vast wilderness. It is now forty years that the Lord, your God, has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.

Deuteronomy 8:16

and fed you in the wilderness with manna, a food unknown to your ancestors, that he might afflict you and test you, but also make you prosperous in the end.

Joshua 1:13

“Remember what Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded you when he said, ‘The Lord, your God, is about to give you rest; he will give you this land.’