Jeremiah 32:22
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New International Version (©2011)
You gave them this land you had sworn to give their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You gave the people of Israel this land that you had promised their ancestors long before--a land flowing with milk and honey.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and gave them this land, which You swore to their forefathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You gave them this land You swore to give to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.

International Standard Version (©2012)
And you gave them this land which you had promised their ancestors that you would give them—a land flowing with milk and honey.

NET Bible (©2006)
You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors. You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You gave them the land that you swore with an oath to give their ancestors, the land flowing with milk and honey.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And have given them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

American King James Version
And have given them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

American Standard Version
and gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And best given them this land which thou didst swear to their fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.

Darby Bible Translation
and didst give them this land, which thou hadst sworn unto their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

English Revised Version
and gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing milk and honey;

Webster's Bible Translation
And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

World English Bible
and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

Young's Literal Translation
And thou givest to them this land that thou didst swear to their fathers to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

32:16-25 Jeremiah adores the Lord and his infinite perfections. When at any time we are perplexed about the methods of Providence, it is good for us to look to first principles. Let us consider that God is the fountain of all being, power, and life; that with him no difficulty is such as cannot be overcome; that he is a God of boundless mercy; that he is a God of strict justice; and that he directs every thing for the best. Jeremiah owns that God was righteous in causing evil to come upon them. Whatever trouble we are in, personal or public, we may comfort ourselves that the Lord sees it, and knows how to remedy it. We must not dispute God's will, but we may seek to know what it means.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them,.... Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; so that God was faithful to his word, kept his covenant and oath; and the faithfulness of God is observed and acknowledged by the prophet, along with other perfections of God before taken notice of. The land of Canaan was a land of promise, confirmed by an oath, and was the pure gift of God to the Israelites, and not any merit of theirs; it was given them by him who had a right to dispose of it, and could make them a good title to it, and which they had; though before in the possession of others, who for their wickedness were driven out:

a land flowing with milk and honey: abounding with plenty of all good things, for the sustenance and comfort of human life; a very frequent description of the land of Canaan, and is expressive of the great kindness and goodness of God to this people.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

22. given … didst swear—God gave it by a gratuitous covenant, not for their deserts.

a land flowing with milk and honey—(See on [942]Nu 14:8).

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Jeremiah's Prayer
…21And have brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror; 22And have given them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; 23And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come on them: …

Exodus 3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Exodus 3:17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites--a land flowing with milk and honey.'
Exodus 13:5 When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites--the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey--you are to observe this ceremony in this month:
Deuteronomy 1:8 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the LORD swore he would give to your fathers--to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--and to their descendants after them."
Psalm 105:9 the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
Jeremiah 11:5 Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey'--the land you possess today." I answered, "Amen, LORD."
Ezekiel 20:6 On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.