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Jeremiah 32:41
Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Jeremiah as a prophetic declaration concerning the exiled Israelites. This utterance occurs within a covenant renewal discourse where God contrasts past judgment with future restoration.
The words — וְשַׂשְׂתִּי (ve-sashti) means "and I will rejoice," paired with נְטַעְתִּי (ne-ta'ti), meaning "I will plant." Both verbs employ the first-person future tense to emphasize divine initiative rather than human effort.
The thread — The motif of God rejoicing over His people appears in Zephaniah 3:17 and Isaiah 62:5, while the promise to plant them in the land echoes Jeremiah 24:6. These passages collectively frame restoration as a deliberate, covenant-keeping act.
Why it lands — The text asserts that God's commitment to restore is grounded in His own heart and soul, not in human reliability. A reader must acknowledge that divine faithfulness operates independently of human merit and demands trust in that unchanging character.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 24:6 I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
- Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
- Isaiah 62:5 For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
- Amos 9:15 I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.
- Hosea 2:19 So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
- Isaiah 65:19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.
- Deuteronomy 30:9 So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
- Jeremiah 18:9 And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,
- Jeremiah 31:28 Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.