Jeremiah 31:2

New English Translation

The Lord says, “The people of Israel who survived death at the hands of the enemy will find favor in the wilderness as they journey to find rest for themselves.

Cross References

Psalm 78:52

Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

Psalm 95:11

So I made a vow in my anger, ‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”

Exodus 1:16

“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

Exodus 12:37

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependants.

Exodus 2:23

During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

Exodus 33:14

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

Exodus 5:21

and they said to them, “May the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem: ‘This is what the Lord says: “I have fond memories of you, how devoted you were to me in your early years. I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted.

Ezekiel 20:35

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

Hosea 11:4

I led them with leather cords, with leather ropes; I lifted the yoke from their neck, and gently fed them.

Numbers 10:33

So they traveled from the mountain of the Lord three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.

Numbers 14:20

Then the Lord said, “I have forgiven them as you asked.

Matthew 11:28

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

Deuteronomy 1:30

The Lord your God is about to go ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt

Deuteronomy 1:33

the one who was constantly going before you to find places for you to set up camp. He appeared by fire at night and cloud by day, to show you the way you ought to go.

Deuteronomy 12:9

for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 2:7

All along the way I, the Lord your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

Deuteronomy 8:16

fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

Joshua 1:13

“Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you. The Lord your God is giving you a place to settle and is handing this land over to you.