Quotes About Redemption

ëThey will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,í declares the LORD. ëThen I will bring them back and restore them to this place.í”

How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacobís distress, but he will be saved out of it.

On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.

As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save 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 make him afraid.

Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”

For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.

Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.

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.

No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ëKnow the LORD,í because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

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.

You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.

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”

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

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

And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.

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

but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.

“Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëI am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes.

and all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive at Mizpah turned and went over to Johanan son of Kareah.

But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save 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 make him afraid.