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Jeremiah 31

31 “At that time”—the declaration of Yahweh—“I will be for God to all of the clans of Israel, and they will be my people.” 2 Thus says Yahweh, “A people, the survivors of the sword, found favor in the wilderness, Israel, going to find his rest.”

3 From far off Yahweh appeared to me, “And with everlasting love I have loved you.

Therefore I have drawn you out with covenant faithfulness.

4 Again I will build you, and you will be built, virgin of Israel.

Again you will adorn yourself with your tambourines, and you will go out in the dance of the ones laughing.

5 Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria;

the planters will plant and will treat them as common.

6 For there will be a day when the watchers on the mountain of Ephraim will call out,

‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to Yahweh our God.’ ”

7 For thus says Yahweh, “Sing for Jacob with gladness, and shout for the chief of the nations. Cause it to be heard, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’

8 Behold, I am bringing them from the land of the north, and I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth. Among them are the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and the one giving birth, together; a great assembly will return here.

9 With weeping they will come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them. I will cause them to walk to streams of water on a straight road; they will not stumble on it. For I have become a father for Israel, and Ephraim, he is my firstborn.

10 Hear the word of Yahweh, nations, and declare it in the coastlands from far off, and say, ‘ The one scattering Israel will gather him, and he will protect him like a shepherd of his flock.’

11 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than he.

12 And they will come and will sing on the height of Zion, and they will be radiant to the goodness of Yahweh, over the grain, and over the new wine, and over the fresh oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd. And their soul will be like a watered garden, and they will not continue to languish again.

13 Then the virgin will rejoice with dancing, and the young men and the old together. And I will turn their mourning to joy, and I will comfort them and I will cause them to rejoice rather than sorrow.

14 And I will saturate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness— the declaration of Yahweh.

15 Thus says Yahweh, “A voice is heard in Ramah, wailing, the weeping of bitterness. Rachel is weeping over her sons; she refuses to be comforted over her sons, for he is no more.”

16 Thus says Yahweh, “Withhold your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work”—the declaration of Yahweh—“and they will return from the land of the enemy.

17 And there is hope for your future”—the declaration of Yahweh—“and will return your sons to their border.

18 Hearing I have heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, ‘ You disciplined me, and I was disciplined like a calf not trained. Cause me to return, and I will return, for you are Yahweh my God.

19 For after my turning away I repented, and after my being made to know I struck on my thigh. I was ashamed and also I was humiliated, for I bore the reproach of my youth.’

20 Is Ephraim a precious son to me, or a child of delights? For as often as I speak against him, remembering I remember him. still Therefore my inward parts groan for him; having compassion I will have compassion on him”— the declaration of Yahweh.

21 Set up for yourself signposts; place for yourself markers. Set your heart to the highway, the road you walked. Return, virgin of Israel; return to these your cities.

22 Until when will you waver, O apostate daughter? For has created Yahweh a new thing in the land: a female surrounds a man."

23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, "Again they will say this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, in my restoring their prosperity, 'May bless you, Yahweh dwelling place of righteousness, mountain of holiness.' 24 And in it Judah and all its cities together will dwell, farmers and those who set out with the flock. 25 For I have saturated the weary soul, and every languishing soul I have filled." 26 On this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

27 "Behold, days are coming— the declaration of Yahweh— and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. 28 And it will be, just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear down, and to overthrow and to destroy and to bring harm, thus I will watch over them to build and to plant— the declaration of Yahweh. 29 In the days those no they will say, longer

'Fathers ate sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are set on edge.'

30 But each man will die in his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

31 Behold, days are coming— the declaration of Yahweh— and I will cut a covenant new with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

32 It will not be like the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day of my taking hold of their hand to bring them out from the land of Egypt, which they, they broke— my covenant— although I, I was a husband to them— the declaration of Yahweh.

33 For this is the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel after those days— the declaration of Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be God for them, and they, they will be a people for me.

34 And no they will teach, longer each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know Yahweh,' for all of them will know me, from the smallest of them to the greatest of them— the declaration of Yahweh— for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin no I will remember longer."

35 Thus says Yahweh, the one giving the sun for light by day, the statutes of the moon and the stars for light by night, the one stirring up the sea its waves so that roar, Yahweh of Armies is his name:

36 "If these statutes depart from before me— the declaration of Yahweh— then also the seed of Israel will cease from being a nation before me all the days."

37 Thus says Yahweh, "If the heavens above can be measured and can be searched out, the foundations of the earth below then also I, I will reject all the seed of Israel for all that they have done— the declaration of Yahweh."

38 "Behold, days are coming— the declaration of Yahweh— and will be built the city for Yahweh, from the Tower of Hananel to the Gate of the Corner. 39 And will go out the measuring line again before it over the hill of Gareb, and it will turn to Goah. 40 And all the valley of the corpses and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the Gate of the Horses toward the east, will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be uprooted, and it will not be overthrown again, forever."