Jeremiah 33:3

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.

Hebrew Names Version
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.

King James Version
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

English Standard Version
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

New American Standard Bible
'Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'

New Century Version
‘Judah, pray to me, and I will answer you. I will tell you important secrets you have never heard before.'

Amplified Bible
'Call to Me and I will answer you, and tell you [and even show you] great and mighty things, [things which have been confined and hidden], which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish.'

World English Bible
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Call vnto me, and I will answere thee, and shewe thee great and mightie things, which thou knowest not.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'

Berean Standard Bible
Call to Me and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Contemporary English Version
Ask me, and I will tell you things that you don't know and can't find out.

Complete Jewish Bible
‘Call out to me, and I will answer you — I will tell you great things, hidden things of which you are unaware.'"

Darby Translation
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and I will shew thee great and hidden things, which thou knowest not.

Easy-to-Read Version
‘Judah, pray to me, and I will answer you. I will tell you important secrets. You have never heard these things before.'

George Lamsa Translation
Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you know not.

Good News Translation
"Call to me, and I will answer you; I will tell you wonderful and marvelous things that you know nothing about.

Lexham English Bible
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great things and inaccessible things that you have not known.'

Literal Translation
Call to Me, and I will answer you; and I will tell you great and inscrutable things; you do not know them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast cried vnto me, and I haue herde the: I haue shewed greate and hie thinges, which were vnknowne vnto you.

American Standard Version
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.

Bible in Basic English
Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and will tell thee great things, and hidden, which thou knowest not.

King James Version (1611)
Call vnto me, and I will answere thee, and shew thee great and mightie things, which thou knowest not.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Crye vnto me, and I wyll aunswere, and shewe thee great and hye thinges whiche were vnknowen vnto thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

English Revised Version
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will shew thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Crye thou to me, and Y schal here thee, and Y schal telle to thee grete thingis, and stidfast, whiche thou knowist not.

Update Bible Version
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don't know.

Webster's Bible Translation
Call to me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

New English Translation
‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.'

New King James Version
"Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'

New Living Translation
Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.

New Life Bible
‘Call to Me, and I will answer you. And I will show you great and wonderful things which you do not know.'

New Revised Standard
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Call unto me that I may answer thee, - and tell thee things great and inaccessible, which thou hast not known.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great things, and sure things which thou knowest not.

Revised Standard Version
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things which you have not known.

Young's Literal Translation
Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things -- thou hast not known them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'

Contextual Overview

¹ While Jeremiah was still locked up in jail, a second Message from God was given to him: ²"This is God 's Message, the God who made earth, made it livable and lasting, known everywhere as God: ‘Call to me and I will answer you. I'll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.' ⁴"This is what God , the God of Israel, has to say about what's going on in this city, about the homes of both people and kings that have been demolished, about all the ravages of war and the killing by the Chaldeans, and about the streets littered with the dead bodies of those killed because of my raging anger—about all that's happened because the evil actions in this city have turned my stomach in disgust. ⁶"But now take another look. I'm going to give this city a thorough renovation, working a true healing inside and out. I'm going to show them life whole, life brimming with blessings. I'll restore everything that was lost to Judah and Jerusalem. I'll build everything back as good as new. I'll scrub them clean from the dirt they've done against me. I'll forgive everything they've done wrong, forgive all their rebellions. And Jerusalem will be a center of joy and praise and glory for all the countries on earth. They'll get reports on all the good I'm doing for her. They'll be in awe of the blessings I am pouring on her.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Call: Jeremiah 29:12, Deuteronomy 4:7, Deuteronomy 4:29, 1 Kings 8:47-50, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 91:15, Psalms 145:18, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Isaiah 65:24, Joel 2:32, Luke 11:9, Luke 11:10, Acts 2:21, Romans 10:12, Romans 10:13, 1 Corinthians 1:2

show: Micah 7:15, Ephesians 3:20

mighty: Heb. hidden, Psalms 25:14, Isaiah 45:3, Isaiah 48:6, Amos 3:7, Matthew 13:35, 1 Corinthians 2:7-11, Revelation 2:17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:9 - for I Judges 3:15 - cried unto 1 Samuel 23:9 - Bring 1 Samuel 23:11 - And the Lord 2 Kings 13:4 - the Lord 2 Kings 19:4 - lift up 2 Kings 19:20 - I have heard 1 Chronicles 4:10 - called 1 Chronicles 21:26 - and called Ezra 8:23 - besought Job 12:4 - calleth Job 33:26 - pray Psalms 56:9 - When Psalms 86:5 - unto all Psalms 107:19 - General Psalms 108:6 - and answer me Isaiah 22:11 - ye have Isaiah 30:19 - he will Isaiah 45:11 - Ask Lamentations 2:7 - given up Daniel 2:18 - they would Daniel 9:3 - I set Joel 2:21 - for Zechariah 10:6 - for I am Matthew 7:7 - and it Philippians 4:6 - in James 5:16 - The effectual 1 John 3:22 - whatsoever 1 John 5:14 - if

Cross-References

Genesis 33:12
Then Esau said, "Let's start out on our way; I'll take the lead."

Genesis 42:6
Joseph was running the country; he was the one who gave out rations to all the people. When Joseph's brothers arrived, they treated him with honor, bowing to him. Joseph recognized them immediately, but treated them as strangers and spoke roughly to them. He said, "Where do you come from?" "From Canaan," they said. "We've come to buy food."

Genesis 43:26
When Joseph got home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought and bowed respectfully before him.

Ecclesiastes 10:4
If a ruler loses his temper against you, don't panic; A calm disposition quiets intemperate rage.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Call unto me, and I will answer thee,.... This is spoken not to Jerusalem, and the inhabitants of it; but to the prophet, encouraging him to seek the Lord by prayer, promising an answer to him. So the Targum,

"pray before me, and I will receive thy prayer:''

and show thee great and mighty things; or, "fortified ones" p; which are like fortified cities, that cannot easily be come at, unless the gates are opened to enter into; and designs such as are difficult of understanding, which exceed human belief, and which reason cannot comprehend and take in; and such are the great things of the Gospel. Some copies read it, "things reserved" q; as the Targum; and so Jarchi, who interprets it of things future, of things reserved in the heart of God, and which he purposed to do; and very rightly:

which thou knowest not; until revealed; and from hence it appears, that by these great and hidden things are not meant the destruction of Jerusalem, and the seventy years' captivity, and return from that, things which Jeremiah had been made acquainted with time after time, and had prophesied of them; but spiritual blessings hereafter mentioned, some of which the deliverance from Babylon were typical of Ben Melech interprets these of comforts great and strong.

p בצרות "munita", Vatablus, Paganinus, Montanus; "fortia", Tigurine version. q נצרות "abstrusa", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "recondita", so some in Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Mighty things - Or, as in the margin. The words are probably a quotation from Isaiah 48:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 33:3. Call unto me, and I will answer thee — To me alone it belongs to reveal what is future; and the stupendous things which are now coming are known only to myself. These idolaters go to their gods to get information relative to the issue of the present commotions; but there is no light in them. Ask thou, O Jeremiah, and I will tell thee the great and mighty things which even thou knowest not.