Jeremiah 26–31 | I Know the Thoughts I Think Toward You

In this Sleepy Scriptures One-Year Bible episode, we continue through the book of Jeremiah with chapters 26 through 31 from the King James Version.

Jeremiah’s message places him in danger as priests, prophets, and leaders call for his death. Yet he remains faithful to the word God has given him. As false prophets promise a quick end to Babylonian rule, Jeremiah warns that the exile will continue and urges the captives to build homes, plant gardens, raise families, and seek the peace of the place where they now live.

Amid these difficult circumstances come some of Jeremiah’s most beloved promises. The Lord tells His people that He knows the thoughts He thinks toward them—thoughts of peace—and promises that those who seek Him with all their heart will find Him.

Then the tone turns increasingly toward restoration. God promises healing, return, everlasting love, renewed joy, and a new covenant written not upon tablets of stone but upon the heart: “I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

Settle in with gentle narration, soothing music, and peaceful visuals as Jeremiah chapters 26 to 31 carry us from opposition and exile toward healing, hope, restoration, and the promise of a new covenant.

Highlighted Verses

Jeremiah 26:13

“Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God.”

Jeremiah 29:7

“And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it.”

Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil.”

Jeremiah 29:13

“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”

Jeremiah 30:17

“For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD.”

Jeremiah 31:3

“Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”

Jeremiah 31:13

“For I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.”

Jeremiah 31:25

“For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

Jeremiah 31:31

“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah.”

Jeremiah 31:33

“I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

Jeremiah 31:34

“For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”