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Jeremiah 32:22

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

KJV

et dedisti eis terram hanc, quam jurasti patribus eorum ut dares eis, terram fluentem lacte et melle.

Vulgate

φωνὴ κραυγῆς τῶν ποιμένων, καὶ ἀλαλαγμὸς τῶν προβάτων καὶ τῶν κριῶν, ὅτι ὠλέθρευσεν Κύριος τὰ βοσκήματα αὐτῶν,

LXX

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

ASV

וַ/תִּתֵּ֤ן לָ/הֶם֙ אֶת הָ/אָ֣רֶץ הַ/זֹּ֔את אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתָּ לַ/אֲבוֹתָ֖/ם לָ/תֵ֣ת לָ/הֶ֑ם אֶ֛רֶץ זָבַ֥ת חָלָ֖ב וּ/דְבָֽשׁ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
דְבָֽשׁ
dbsh
noun · 53×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
זָבַ֥ת
zbt
verb · 42×
זֹּ֔את
z't
pronoun · 604×
חָלָ֖ב
chlb
noun · 43×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
נִשְׁבַּ֥ע
nshb'
verb · 182×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 1:8 — Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
  • Exod 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
  • Exod 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
  • Exod 3:17 — And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a
  • Exod 13:5 — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a
  • Ezek 20:6 — In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
  • Gen 22:17 — That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enem
  • Jer 11:5 — That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
  • Ps 105:9 — Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;