◄ Jeremiah 33:16 ►
In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
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In those days
This phrase refers to a future time of fulfillment and restoration. In the context of Jeremiah, it points to the Messianic age, a time anticipated by the prophets when God would intervene decisively in history. The Hebrew phrase "bayamim hahem" often signals a prophetic vision of hope and divine intervention, suggesting a period when God's promises will be realized.

Judah will be saved
The salvation of Judah signifies not just a physical deliverance from enemies but a spiritual renewal and restoration. The Hebrew word for "saved" is "yasha," which implies being delivered or rescued. Historically, Judah faced numerous threats, and this promise reassures the people of God's ultimate protection and redemption through the coming Messiah, who Christians believe is fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

and Jerusalem will dwell securely
Jerusalem, the city of God, represents the heart of the Jewish nation and the center of worship. The promise of dwelling securely, "betach" in Hebrew, conveys a sense of peace and safety. This security is not merely political but spiritual, indicating a time when God's presence will be fully realized among His people, providing them with true peace.

and this is the name by which it will be called
Names in the Bible often reflect character and destiny. The phrase indicates a new identity and purpose for Jerusalem, one that is intimately connected with God's nature and His covenant with His people. It suggests a transformation that aligns with God's redemptive plan.

The LORD Our Righteousness
This name, "Yahweh Tsidkenu" in Hebrew, encapsulates the essence of God's promise. It signifies that the righteousness of God will be the defining characteristic of His people. In a conservative Christian perspective, this is seen as a direct reference to Jesus Christ, who embodies God's righteousness and imparts it to believers. The righteousness of God is not earned but given, highlighting the grace and mercy of God in salvation. This name assures believers of their justified status before God through faith in Christ, who is the ultimate fulfillment of this prophetic promise.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Judah
The southern kingdom of Israel, representing the remnant of God's people who are promised salvation and restoration.

2. Jerusalem
The capital city of Judah, symbolizing the center of worship and God's presence among His people.

3. The LORD Our Righteousness
A prophetic name for the Messiah, indicating that righteousness comes from the Lord and is imputed to His people.
Teaching Points
The Promise of Salvation
God's promise to save Judah and Jerusalem is a reminder of His faithfulness to His covenant people. This salvation is ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who offers salvation to all who believe.

Security in God
The prophecy that Jerusalem will dwell securely points to the peace and security found in a relationship with God. Believers today can find true security in Christ, regardless of external circumstances.

Righteousness from the LORD
The name "The LORD Our Righteousness" emphasizes that true righteousness is not achieved by human effort but is a gift from God through faith in Jesus Christ. This should encourage believers to rely on God's grace rather than their own works.

Messianic Fulfillment
This verse points to the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, who embodies the righteousness of God. Understanding this helps believers appreciate the continuity of God's redemptive plan from the Old Testament to the New Testament.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does the promise of salvation for Judah and Jerusalem in Jeremiah 33:16 encourage you in your personal walk with God?

2. In what ways can you experience the security that is promised to Jerusalem in your own life today?

3. How does the concept of "The LORD Our Righteousness" challenge your understanding of righteousness and how it is obtained?

4. What connections can you draw between Jeremiah 33:16 and the New Testament teachings on righteousness through faith in Christ?

5. How can you apply the assurance of God's faithfulness, as seen in this prophecy, to current challenges or uncertainties you face?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Jeremiah 23:5-6
This passage also refers to the coming of a righteous Branch from David's line, who will be called "The LORD Our Righteousness," highlighting the messianic prophecy.

Isaiah 9:6-7
Connects to the promise of a righteous ruler from David's line, emphasizing the eternal nature of His kingdom.

Romans 3:21-22
Discusses the righteousness of God that comes through faith in Jesus Christ, aligning with the theme of "The LORD Our Righteousness."

2 Corinthians 5:21
Speaks of Christ becoming sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God, illustrating the fulfillment of this prophecy in the New Testament.
Sermons
The Lord Our RighteousnessS. Conway Jeremiah 33:16
Paradise Lost and RegainedS. Conway Jeremiah 33:10-18
Christ, the Perfection of RighteousnessGreat ThoughtsJeremiah 33:15-16
The Justified ChurchJ. Gumming, D. D.Jeremiah 33:15-16
People
Babylonians, Benjamin, David, Ezekiel, Isaac, Jacob, Jeremiah, Levites
Places
Jerusalem, Negeb, Shephelah
Topics
Confidently, Dwell, Jerusalem, Judah, Proclaimeth, Righteousness, Safe, Safely, Safety, Salvation, Saved, Securely, Whereby, Wherewith
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Jeremiah 33:10-16

     6730   reinstatement

Jeremiah 33:15-16

     2042   Christ, justice of
     2078   Christ, sonship of
     4416   branch
     5511   safety

Library
A Threefold Disease and a Twofold Cure.
'I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against Me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against Me.'--JER. xxxiii. 8. Jeremiah was a prisoner in the palace of the last King of Judah. The long, national tragedy had reached almost the last scene of the last act. The besiegers were drawing their net closer round the doomed city. The prophet had never faltered in predicting its fall, but he had as uniformly …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Things Unknown
"Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."--Jeremiah 33:3. GOD'S PEOPLE WILL NEVER THRIVE on anything less substantial than bread from heaven. Israel in Egypt might live on garlic and onions, but Israel in the wilderness must be fed with the manna that came down from heaven, and with the water that gushed out of the rock, when it was smitten by the rod of God. The child of God, while he is yet in his sins, may, like other men, revel in them, …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 46: 1900

Discerning Prayer.
INTRODUCTORY. BY D.W. WHITTLE. To recognize God's existence is to necessitate prayer to Him, by all intelligent creatures, or, a consciously living in sin and under condemnation of conscience, because they do not pray to Him. It would be horrible to admit the existence of a Supreme Being, with power and wisdom to create, and believe that the creatures he thought of consequence and importance enough to bring into existence, are not of enough consequence for him to pay any attention to in the troubles …
Various—The Wonders of Prayer

The Royal Priesthood
Gerhard Ter Steegen Jer. xxxiii. 18; Rev. i. 6 The race of God's anointed priests shall never pass away; Before His glorious Face they stand, and serve Him night and day. Though reason raves, and unbelief flows on, a mighty flood, There are, and shall be, till the end, the hidden priests of God. His chosen souls, their earthly dross consumed in sacred fire, To God's own heart their hearts ascend in flame of deep desire; The incense of their worship fills His Temple's holiest place; Their song with …
Frances Bevan—Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others

The Best of the Best
"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys."--Song of Solomon 2:1. THE time of flowers has come, and as they are in some faint degree emblems of our Lord, it is well, when God thus calls, that we should seek to learn what he desires to teach us by them. If nature now spreads out her roses and her lilies, or prepares to do so, let us try, not only to see them, but to see Christ as he is shadowed forth in them. "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys." If these are the words …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 42: 1896

Nature of Covenanting.
A covenant is a mutual voluntary compact between two parties on given terms or conditions. It may be made between superiors and inferiors, or between equals. The sentiment that a covenant can be made only between parties respectively independent of one another is inconsistent with the testimony of Scripture. Parties to covenants in a great variety of relative circumstances, are there introduced. There, covenant relations among men are represented as obtaining not merely between nation and nation, …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

Putting God to Work
"For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God beside thee who worketh for him that waiteth for him."--Isaiah 64:4. The assertion voiced in the title given this chapter is but another way of declaring that God has of His own motion placed Himself under the law of prayer, and has obligated Himself to answer the prayers of men. He has ordained prayer as a means whereby He will do things through men as they pray, which He would not otherwise do. Prayer …
Edward M. Bounds—The Weapon of Prayer

Be Ye Therefore Perfect, Even as Your Father which is in Heaven is Perfect. Matthew 5:48.
In the 43rd verse, the Savior says, "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy; but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you, that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward …
Charles G. Finney—Lectures to Professing Christians

The Sermon of the Seasons
"Oh, the long and dreary Winter! Oh, the cold and cruel Winter!" We say to ourselves, Will spring-time never come? In addition to this, trade and commerce continue in a state of stagnation; crowds are out of employment, and where business is carried on, it yields little profit. Our watchmen are asked if they discern any signs of returning day, and they answer, "No." Thus we bow our heads in a common affliction, and ask each man comfort of his fellow; for as yet we see not our signs, neither does …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 32: 1886

Twentieth Day for God's Spirit on the Heathen
WHAT TO PRAY.--For God's Spirit on the Heathen "Behold, these shall come from far; and these from the land of Sinim."--ISA. xlix. 12. "Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands to God."--PS. lxviii. 31. "I the Lord will hasten it in His time."--ISA. lx. 22. Pray for the heathen, who are yet without the word. Think of China, with her three hundred millions--a million a month dying without Christ. Think of Dark Africa, with its two hundred millions. Think …
Andrew Murray—The Ministry of Intercession

Truth Hidden when not Sought After.
"They shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."--2 Tim. iv. 4. From these words of the blessed Apostle, written shortly before he suffered martyrdom, we learn, that there is such a thing as religious truth, and therefore there is such a thing as religious error. We learn that religious truth is one--and therefore that all views of religion but one are wrong. And we learn, moreover, that so it was to be (for his words are a prophecy) that professed Christians, …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII

Cleansing.
As there are conditions requiring to be complied with in order to the obtaining of salvation, before one can be justified, e. g., conviction of sin, repentance, faith; so there are conditions for full salvation, for being "filled with the Holy Ghost." Conviction of our need is one, conviction of the existence of the blessing is another; but these have been already dealt with. "Cleansing" is another; before one can be filled with the Holy Ghost, one's heart must be "cleansed." "Giving them the Holy …
John MacNeil—The Spirit-Filled Life

Curiosity a Temptation to Sin.
"Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away."--Proverbs iv. 14, 15. The chief cause of the wickedness which is every where seen in the world, and in which, alas! each of us has more or less his share, is our curiosity to have some fellowship with darkness, some experience of sin, to know what the pleasures of sin are like. I believe it is even thought unmanly by many persons (though they may not like to say …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII

Jeremiah
The interest of the book of Jeremiah is unique. On the one hand, it is our most reliable and elaborate source for the long period of history which it covers; on the other, it presents us with prophecy in its most intensely human phase, manifesting itself through a strangely attractive personality that was subject to like doubts and passions with ourselves. At his call, in 626 B.C., he was young and inexperienced, i. 6, so that he cannot have been born earlier than 650. The political and religious …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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