What Does Jeremiah 30:22 Mean?

And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 30:22 · SDV

Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.

Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.

This verse in the King James

King James wording

King James Version

And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

THE KEY

The same Hebrew verb holds both halves of the promise: you are for God, and God will be for you.

THE MEANING

Your belonging to God and God’s being with you are held together here: you are God’s people, and God is your God. The verse describes a living relationship, with both sides joined by the same verb of being.

THE ROOT

אֶהְיֶה

ehyeh

GROWS FROM

היה

hayah

To be, become, or come to pass.

The promise uses this same root for both sides: “you shall be” and “I will be.” Hebrew binds your belonging and God’s presence together through one verb of being.

ALSO GROWS

vayehi: And it came to be.

וַיְהִי

This common form shows the root describing something coming into being, not merely carrying a label.

yihyeh: He or it will be.

יִהְיֶה

This future form shares the root’s sense of being with the promise that God will be for you.

THE PATTERN

Covenant is expressed as shared belonging: God is with the people, and the people are God’s.

And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God, and you shall perceive that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the loads of the Egyptians.

Exodus 6:7 · SDVGod’s deliverance leads into a relationship named through the same reciprocal belonging.

And I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people.

Leviticus 26:12 · SDVGod’s presence among the people is expressed as mutual belonging.

And what setting down together has the temple of God with images? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said, "I will dwell in them, and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people."

2 Corinthians 6:16 · SDVThe same promise appears as God dwelling and walking among the people who belong to him.

THE THREAD

And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. And he said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.

Exodus 3:14 · SDV

Jeremiah’s “I will be” and God’s “I AM” here come from the same Hebrew verb, ⁨היה⁩ (hayah, “to be or become”). The promise reads as the living expression of that name: the one who says “I AM” will be God for you.

This reading is from Selah Verse.

You can read any verse this way in the app, keep it as a card, and send it on.

Get Selah Verse

A Bible app where you send verses from your keyboard and in Messages, and every verse has a Deep Dive.

Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us