Jeremiah 31-33

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness” (31:3). Although Judah’s citizens would go into exile and Jerusalem would be overthrown, Jeremiah declared that God loved His people always. One day, God promised to bring them back from Babylon and resettle them in their land (31:6). Even greater, God promised to make “a new covenant” with His people, not based on tablets of stone, but written on the heart (31:31). Then, Israel would be ruled by the Messiah - “a righteous Branch” from David’s line (33:15-17).

“They will return from the land of the enemy” (31:16). Even when, like Judah, our own choices send us into exile, God’s everlasting love in Christ calls us home.