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Moff JER Chapter 31

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“Then,” the Eternal promises,

“I will be God to all the families of Israel,

and they shall be my people.”

For this is the Eternal’s promise:

“Those who survive the sword

shall find grace in the dungeon.”

When Israel yearned for rest,

then in a far land the Eternal appeared,

saying, “From of old I love you,

so now I draw you gently home.

Once more I will settle you,

O maiden Israel;

once more you shall take the tambourine

and dance merrily;

once more you shall plant vines

upon Samaria’s slopes,

and those who plant shall enjoy the grapes,

with praise to the Eternal.”

[[Yes, the day will come when vintagers

on the heights of Ephraim cry,

“Let us rise and go to Sion,

to the Eternal, our own God!”]]

For this is the Eternal’s word to Jacob:

“Shout aloud on the hill-tops,

ring out your praises, cry,

‘The Eternal has saved his people,

the remnant of Israel!’

I am bringing them out of the north-land,

gathering them from the ends of the earth;

blind and lame are among them,

women with child and women in travail--

they come back, a great company.

They went away in tears,

but I lead them back consoled.

I guide them to streams of water,

by smooth roads where they cannot stumble;

for to Israel I am a father,

and Ephraim is my first-born son.”

Listen to the Eternal’s word, ye nations,

spread the news to far-off isles;

“He who scattered Israel gathers them,

and tends them as a shepherd tends his flock.

For the Eternal has set Jacob free,

and rescued him from a stronger power.

So they shall gather singing on the heights of Sion,

all radiant over the Eternal’s bounty,

yearlings of sheep and cattle,

corn, oil, and wine;

for them life shall be like a watered garden,

no longer shall they pine.

The girls shall delight in dancing,

young men and old shall be merry;

I will change their grief to gladness,

consoling, cheering them after their sorrow;

I will heap rich food on their priests,

and satisfy my people with my bounty.

I have indeed heard Ephraim

bemoaning thus his plight:

‘Under thy chastening I have been chastened,

like an unbroken colt;

bring me back, let me return,

for thou art the Eternal, mv God.

My exile led me to repent;

when I was chastened, I smote my breast;

I sink in shame under the penalty

for what I did in youth.’

Is it because Ephraim is my favourite son,

my darling child,

that whenever I must punish him,

my heart dwells on him still?

Yes, my pity stirs for him--

I must have mercy on him!

Put up waymarks, set up guideposts,

bethink you of the high road,

by which you travelled hence.

Come back by it, O maiden Israel,

come back to your home towns here.

How long will you hesitate,

O erring daughter?

Why, the Eternal makes a new thing upon earth;

frail woman becomes manly!”

The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says:

“When I restore their fortunes,

then in Judah’s land and towns

once more they shall use this word,

‘The Eternal bless you, Home of goodness,

Sacred heights!’

There, in Judah and in all her townships,

they shall live together,

the men who plough the land,

the herdsmen wandering with their flocks;

for richly I refresh the weary life

and I replenish everyone who pines.”

[[Here I awoke, I opened wide my eyes--

this was a pretty dream!]]

“A day comes, the Eternal promises,

when I sow Israel and Judah

with the seed of men and the seed of cattle;

as once I was alert to tear them up and harm them,

so I will be alert to set them up and plant them.

Then they shall say no more,

‘The fathers ate sour grapes,

and the children’s teeth are on edge’;

but each shall die for his own sin,

and he who eats the sour grapes,

his own teeth shall be set on edge.

A day comes, the Eternal promises,

when I make a fresh compact

with all the house of Israel--

not like the compact I once made with their fathers,

the day I took them by the hand

to bring them out of Egypt’s land,

the compact that they broke,

till I had to reject them.

No, this is the compact I make

with Israel in the end;

I will put my law within them,

writing it on their hearts;

and I will be a God to them,

and they to me a people;

no longer shall they have to teach

their fellows, each instructing each,

how to know the Eternal; for they all

shall know me, both the great and small;

for I will pardon their offences,

their sin I never will recall.

35 This is the word of the Eternal, who sets the sun to light the day and the moon and stars to light the night, who stirs the sea up till its waters roar (his name, the Lord of hosts): 36 only when this fixed order vanishes from my sight, says the Eternal, shall the race of Israel cease to be a nation before me for all time. 37 This is the Eternal’s word: only when heaven above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below laid bare, will I ever cast off the race of Israel for all that they have done, says the Eternal.

38 A day comes, the Eternal dedares, when the Eternal will have the city rebuilt from the tower of Hananel to the gate at the corner, 39 when the line of the wall shall run straight south to the hill of Gareb and then turn round to Goah. 40 The very valley of the dead, where the altar-refuse is thrown, with the fields as far as the ravine of Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse gate eastward, shall all be sacred to the Eternal; never again shall they be torn up or demolished.”

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