Bible Strands
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — YHWH speaks to Jeremiah during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, bracketed by a self-identification as Creator (33:2) and a pronouncement on the destroyed houses and palaces (33:4).
The words — בְּצֻרֹת (betsurot), "incomprehensible things," from the root צרר (tsarar), "to close up, enclose"; the sense is not merely "great" but "sealed off," inaccessible to human reach.
The thread — The call-and-answer pattern recurs in Jeremiah 29:12 ("you will call upon Me… I will listen") and Isaiah 65:24 ("before they call, I will answer"); Ephesians 3:20 echoes the scope ("immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine").
Why it lands — The verse makes the call a precondition, not a response to comfort; what is promised is not relief but the opening of what is currently shut off.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 29:12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
- Isaiah 65:24 Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
- Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- Isaiah 48:6 You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.
- Psalms 91:15 When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
- Luke 11:9 So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
- Psalms 50:15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
- Deuteronomy 4:29 But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Psalms 145:18 The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
- Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.