What Does Jeremiah 30:22 Mean in the King James?

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

Jeremiah 30:22 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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 ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

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

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

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

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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

THE THREAD

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Exodus 3:14 · KJV

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.

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