Jer 31
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At that time, says YHWH, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they
shall be my people.
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Thus says YHWH, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness;
even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
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YHWH appeared of old to me, [saying], Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love:
therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
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Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again shall you
be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
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Again shall you plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall
plant, and shall enjoy [its fruit].
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For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise
you, and let us go up to Zion to YHWH our God.
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For thus says YHWH, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations:
publish you, praise you, and say, O YHWH, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
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Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost
parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and
her that travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.
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They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause
them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble;
for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
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Hear the word of YHWH, O you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say,
He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.
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For YHWH has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him whom was stronger
than he.
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And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness
of YHWH, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the
flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall
not sorrow any more at all.
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Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together;
for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice
from their sorrow.
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And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied
with my goodness, says YHWH.
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Thus says YHWH: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel
weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they
are not.
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Thus says YHWH: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your
work shall be rewarded, says YHWH; and they shall come again from the land of the
enemy.
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And there is hope for your latter end, says YHWH; and [your] children shall come again
to their own border.
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I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I
was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned;
for you are YHWH my God.
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Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote
upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach
of my youth.
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Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him,
I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely
have mercy upon him, says YHWH.
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Set you up waymarks, make you guide-posts; set your heart toward the highway, even
the way by which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your
cities.
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How long will you go here and there, O you backsliding daughter? for YHWH has created
a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech in
the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their captivity:
YHWH bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of holiness.
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And Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the husbandmen,
and they that go about with flocks.
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For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.
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Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.
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Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house
of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
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And it shall come to pass that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to
break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them
to build and to plant, says YHWH.
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In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children`s teeth are set on edge.
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But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grapes,
his teeth shall be set on edge.
31
Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel, and with the house of Judah:
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not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake,
although I was a husband to them, says YHWH.
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But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,
says YHWH: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write
it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
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and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
Know YHWH; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,
says YHWH: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
35
Thus says YHWH, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon
and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves
roar; YHWH of hosts is his name:
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If these ordinances depart from before me, says YHWH, then the seed of Israel also
shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
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Thus says YHWH: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth
searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that
they have done, says YHWH.
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Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that the city shall be built to YHWH from the tower
of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
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And the measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and
shall turn about to Goah.
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And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the
brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to YHWH;
it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.