But He brought His people out like sheep, and led them in the wilderness like a flock.
Jeremiah 31:2 - Tree of Life Version “From afar Adonai appeared to me.” “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
But He brought His people out like sheep, and led them in the wilderness like a flock.
Therefore I swore in My anger, ‘They shall never enter into My rest.’”
and said, “When you help the Hebrew women during childbirth, look at the sex. If it’s a son, then kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”
But Pharaoh charged all his people saying, “You are to cast every son that is born into the river, but let every daughter live.”
Then Bnei-Yisrael journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 men on foot, as well as children.
Now it came about over the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. Bnei-Yisrael groaned because of their slavery. They cried out and their cry from slavery went up to God.
“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest,” He answered.
So they said to them, “May Adonai look on you and judge, because you have made us a stench in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants—putting a sword in their hand to kill us!”
“Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, thus says Adonai: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, and the way you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples. I will judge you there face to face.
With human cords I was drawing them, with bonds of love, and I became to them as One lifting a yoke from their jaws. I bent down to them and fed them.
So they advanced from the mountain of Adonai, a trip of three days, the Ark of the covenant of Adonai going ahead of them for those three days to seek out a resting place for them.
Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Adonai your God, who goes before you, He Himself will fight for you—just as He did for you in Egypt before your own eyes,
the One who goes before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp and to show you the way you should go, in fire by night and in the cloud by day.
For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that Adonai your God is giving you.
For Adonai your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand—He has known your wanderings through this great wilderness. These 40 years Adonai your God has been with you—you have lacked nothing.”’
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, in order to afflict you and test you, to do you good in the end.
“Remember the word that Moses the servant of Adonai commanded you saying: ‘Adonai your God has given you rest, and has assigned to you this land.’