Jeremiah 33:6 (DRB)

Passage

Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 33:4 For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the houses of this city, and to the houses of the king of Juda, which are destroyed, and to the bulwarks, and to the sword.

Jeremiah 33:5 Of them that come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of the men whom I have slain in my wrath, and in my indignation, hiding my face from this city because of all their wickedness.

Jeremiah 33:6 Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.

Jeremiah 33:7 And I will bring back the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Jerusalem: and I will build them as from the beginning.

Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me: and I will forgive all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and despised me.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "behold", "close", "wounds", "give", "health", "cure", "reveal", and "prayer". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "behold" and "close", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "Of them that come to fight with..." into verse 7's "And I will bring back the captivity...", so "behold" and "close" belong inside that flow. In Jeremiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "behold" and "close" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.