Jeremiah 31:9
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Jeremiah 31:9 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Jeremiah 31:9 is a verse from the book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Jeremiah 31:9 — KJV
“They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. supplications: or, favours”
— Jeremiah 31:9 (KJV)
Jeremiah 31:9 in Context — About the Book of Jeremiah
Jeremiah preached for forty years to a nation that would not listen, weeping as Jerusalem fell. Yet from the rubble come some of Scripture's most hopeful promises: plans to prosper and not harm, a new covenant written on hearts, and a God who invites us to call and see great things.
Cross-References for Jeremiah 31:9
“In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. with: or, to given...: or, caused your fathers to possess”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 31:9: come, cause, walk
“And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them. come...: Heb. found them”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 31:9: come, way, father
“And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 31:9: cause, way, father
“Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 31:9: cause, way, father
“For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 31:9: cause, walk, father
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