Jeremiah 33:3 (LSB)

Passage

‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 33:1 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying,

Jeremiah 33:2 “Thus says Yahweh who made the earth, Yahweh who formed it to establish it; Yahweh is His name,

Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

Jeremiah 33:4 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which are torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword,

Jeremiah 33:5 ‘While they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with the corpses of men whom I have struck down in My anger and in My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their evil:

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "call", "answer", "tell", "great", "mighty", and "things". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "call" and "answer", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "Thus says Yahweh who made the earth..." into verse 4's "For thus says Yahweh the God of...", so "call" and "answer" 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 "call" and "answer" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.