jeremiah my thoughts are not your thoughts

I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations. Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. Let them come forward and testify let us together draw near for judgment. 'Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. 'Comfort, comfort My people, ' says your God.

While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time: This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

'At that time, ' declares the LORD, 'I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.' 'I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful, ' declares the LORD. Go, proclaim this message toward the north: 'Return, O faithless Israel, ' declares the LORD. 'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, ' declares the LORD.īut they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan: that He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.īut did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your forefathers? They repented and said, 'Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.''įor this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent, ' says the LORD of Hosts. I distinguish the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come, saying: 'My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure.'. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations. I will say, 'They are My people,' and they will say, 'The LORD is our God.''īut He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires. They will call on My name, and I will answer them.

This third I will bring through the fire I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. 'so now I have resolved to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.' So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place. This is what the LORD says: 'I will restore the fortunes of Jacob's tents and have compassion on his dwellings. Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.Īs for you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel for I will surely deliver you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to frighten him. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.īehold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a Righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as king and administer justice and righteousness in the land. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, 'Here is your God!' Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us-none can compare to You-if I would proclaim and declare of them, they are more than could be numbered.

Jeremiah my thoughts are not your thoughts