Bible Strands
Jeremiah 33:10
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
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD speaks through Jeremiah to a community declaring Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets utterly deserted. The utterance interrupts their report of total abandonment to announce a future reversal of that condition.
The words — עוֹד (‘Od) translates as “again,” and יִשָּׁמַע (yiššāma‘) translates as “it will be heard,” anchoring the verse in a restored auditory reality. These terms frame the promise as divine speech overriding human assessment of emptiness.
The thread — The pattern of hearing in a desolate place appears in Jeremiah 32:43, where fields are purchased in land called a desolation, and Ezekiel 37:11, where the people report dried bones. Jeremiah 33:11 immediately specifies the exact sounds that will replace the silence.
Why it lands — The text asserts that current reports of desolation do not dictate future reality. It requires the reader to accept divine speech as the basis for expecting restoration rather than relying on present circumstances.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 32:43 And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’
- Jeremiah 32:36 Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
- Ezekiel 37:11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’