Bible Strands
Jeremiah 31:25
for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks a promise of refreshment within a broader oracle of restoration for Judah and its cities (v. 24), addressed to the weary and the faint as a group.
The words — נֶ֣פֶשׁ (nephesh) appears twice: first as "throat," the physical seat of thirst, then as "person," the whole depleted individual. The verb הִרְוֵ֖יתִי (hirveiti), "I give water to," is more concrete than the BSB's "refresh"—it is the act of quenching.
The thread — The same movement from depletion to satisfaction runs through Matthew 11:28 (weary, burdened → rest), Matthew 5:6 (hunger, thirst → filled), and Psalms 107:9 (thirsty, hungry → satisfied).
Why it lands — The verse does not condition the promise on the reader's worthiness or effort; it simply names the condition (weariness, faintness) and states the response. It asks the reader to identify which of those two words describes them.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
Cross-references
- Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
- Matthew 11:28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Psalms 107:9 For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
- John 4:14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- Jeremiah 31:14 I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
- Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
- Luke 1:53 He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- 2 Corinthians 7:6 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,
- Isaiah 32:2 Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.