Jeremiah 33:3

‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious ¹  things which you still do not know about.’

De 4:7,29; 1Ki 8:47-50; Ps 25:14; Ps 50:15; Ps 91:15; Ps 145:18; Isa 45:3; Isa 48:6; Isa 55:6,7; Isa 65:24; Jer 29:12; Joe 2:32; Am 3:7; Mic 7:15; Mt 13:35; Lu 11:9,10; Ac 2:21; Ro 10:12,13; 1Co 1:2; 1Co 2:7-11; Eph 3:20; Re 2:17

¹ tn This passive participle or adjective is normally used to describe cities or walls as “fortified” or “inaccessible.” All the lexicons, however, agree in seeing it used here metaphorically of “secret” or “mysterious” things, things that Jeremiah could not know apart from the Lord’s revelation. G. L. Keown, P. J. Scalise, and T. G. Smothers (Jeremiah 26-52 [WBC], 170) make the interesting observation that the word is used here in a context in which the fortifications of Jerusalem are about to fall to the Babylonians; the fortified things in God’s secret counsel fall through answer to prayer.