11 translations · Hebrew

Jeremiah 31:3

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

World English Bible

Jeremiah 31:3 in 11 translations

WEB World English Bible
Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
KJV King James Version
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
ASV American Standard Version
Jehovah appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
LSV Literal Standard Version
YHWH has appeared to me from afar, “I have loved you with perpetual love, || Therefore I have drawn you [with] kindness.
FBV Free Bible Version
Long ago the Lord came and told us, My love for you will last forever. I hold you close to me with my trustworthy love.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
From afar Jehovah hath appeared to me, With love age-during I have loved thee, Therefore I have drawn thee [with] kindness.
DBY Darby Translation
Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me, [saying,] Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.
WBT Webster’s Bible
The LORD appeared of old to me, saying , I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.
WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.

The Hebrew words

Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.

Word Transliteration English (BSB) Strong’s
מֵרָח֕וֹק mê·rā·ḥō·wq in the past, [saying] H7350 רָחֹק distant
יְהוָ֖ה Yah·weh The LORD H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD
נִרְאָ֣ה nir·’āh appeared H7200 רָאָה to see: see
לִ֑י lî to us H9005 ל to/for
וְאַהֲבַ֤ת wə·’a·hă·ḇaṯ love H160 אַהֲבָה love
עוֹלָם֙ ‘ō·w·lām you with an everlasting H5769 עוֹלָם forever: enduring
אֲהַבְתִּ֔יךְ ’ă·haḇ·tîḵ I have loved H157 אָהֵב to love: lover
עַל־ ‘al- therefore H5921 עַל upon
כֵּ֖ן kên — H3651 כֵּן right
מְשַׁכְתִּ֥יךְ mə·šaḵ·tîḵ I have drawn you H4900 מָשַׁךְ to draw
חָֽסֶד׃ ḥā·seḏ with loving devotion H2617 חֶ֫סֶד kindness
  • Psalm 103:17

    But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

  • Isaiah 54:8–9

    In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer. “For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

  • Hosea 11:4

    I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.

  • Ephesians 2:4–5

    But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

  • Deuteronomy 33:3

    Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.

  • 1 John 4:19

    We love him, because he first loved us.

  • Deuteronomy 7:7–9

    Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

  • 2 Timothy 1:9

    who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

  • Romans 8:30

    Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

  • Ephesians 1:3–5

    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love; having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.

In context

1 “At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

2 Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”

3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

4 I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

5 Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit.

Read all of Jeremiah 31 in the World English Bible.

Edition and source notes

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Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.

The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.

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