Jeremiah 31

Love & Restoration

100

This enduring quality moved Jehovah to draw Israel back and rebuild it.

What is everlasting love (or loyal love)?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:3

200

Tambourines, vineyards in Samaria, and worshippers going up to Zion illustrate this promised reversal.

What is Israel's restoration?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:4-6

300

Jehovah specifically included these four vulnerable groups among those returning on a safe, level path.

Who are the blind, the lame, pregnant women, and nursing mothers?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:8-9

400

In verses 10-11, Jehovah gathers, watches over, and rescues Jacob while acting in these two pastoral and purchasing roles.

Who are the Shepherd and Repurchaser?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:10-11; report: 'The Shepherd reverses loss'

500

The report says spiritual restoration includes these two positive outcomes, not merely relief from consequences.

What are renewed worship and a restored relationship with Jehovah?

Reference: Report application on Jeremiah 31:10-14

Rachel & Hope

100

This symbolic mother of Israel is pictured weeping for her sons.

Who is Rachel?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:15

200

This Benjaminite location, about 8 km north of Jerusalem, was apparently an assembly point for captives.

What is Ramah?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:15; report: 'Rachel weeps'

300

Jehovah answered Rachel's tears with these three assurances about what lay ahead.

What are a reward, return from enemy territory, and hope for the future?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:16-17

400

This Gospel passage applies Rachel's lament to mothers bereaved by Herod's killing of young boys in Bethlehem.

What is Matthew 2:16-18?

Reference: Matthew 2:16-18; report interpretive key

500

Because death is an enemy from whose grip the dead will return, Rachel's promised future can also support this hope.

What is the resurrection hope?

Reference: Report: 'Hope within the lament'

Repentance & Return

100

This tribe asks Jehovah, 'Bring me back,' after admitting that correction was needed.

Who is Ephraim?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:18

200

Recognition, remorse, shame, and a decisive turning are identified as stages of this response to wrongdoing.

What is genuine repentance?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:18-19

300

Jehovah still calls repentant Ephraim by these two affectionate descriptions.

What are 'a precious son' and 'a beloved child'?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:20

400

Israel was told to set these up, fix attention on the highway, and return - showing that repentance is directional.

What are road markers?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:21

500

Verse 22's 'new thing' pictures unfaithful Israel taking this changed initiative toward Jehovah, her husbandly owner.

What is eagerly pressing back toward Jehovah to regain a good relationship?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:22; Insight, 'Woman'

The New Covenant

100

Jeremiah foretold this covenant that would be unlike the Law covenant Israel broke

What is the new covenant?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:31-32

200

Under the new covenant, Jehovah places his law here rather than imposing an external code alone.

What is within his people's hearts?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:33

300

He is the mediator whose shed blood provides the legal basis for lasting forgiveness.

Who is Jesus Christ?

Reference: Luke 22:20; Hebrews 8:6; report: 'The parties, mediator, and legal basis'

400

These spirit-begotten spiritual Israelites are parties to the covenant and will rule with Christ.

Who are the 144,000?

Reference: Report: 'The parties, mediator, and legal basis'

500

Jehovah's promise not to remember forgiven sin means this - not that he loses knowledge of it.

What is that he forgives completely and no longer holds the pardoned sin against the repentant person?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:34; report: 'A crucial distinction'

Promis & Application

100

This everyday comparison in verses 12-14 pictures restored people flourishing under Jehovah's care.

What is a well-watered garden?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:12-14

200

The sour-grapes proverb is corrected by this principle: each person answers for his own error.

What is personal accountability?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:29-30

300

After uprooting a harmful pattern, the report recommends deliberately doing this.

What is planting a better pattern?

Reference: Report application on Jeremiah 31:27-30

400

The dependable order of these four features of creation guarantees that Jehovah's promise will stand.

What are the sun, moon, stars, and sea?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:35-37

500

By the chapter's close, even areas formerly linked with uncleanness or judgment receive this complete change of status.

What is becoming holy to Jehovah?

Reference: Jeremiah 31:38-40