Quotes About Promise

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israelís descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israelís descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

The measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.

Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ëBuy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.í

Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ëPlease buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.í” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”

You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ëBuy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!í”

They will be My people, and I will be their God.

For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.

And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ëIt is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.í

Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”

I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.

This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.