Jer 31
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At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of and they shall
be my people.
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Thus saith the Lord: The people were left and escaped from the sword, found grace
in the desert: Israel shall to his rest.
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The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with everlasting love,
therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.
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And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, 0 virgin of Israel: thou shalt
again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that
make merry.
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Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant,
and they shall not gather the vintage before the time.
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For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount Ephraim, shall cry: Arise,
and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God.
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For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in the joy of Jacob, and neigh before the head
of the Gentiles: shout ye, and sing, and say: Save, O Lord, thy people, the remnant
of Israel.
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Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will gather them from the ends
of the earth: and among them shall be the blind, and the lame, the woman with child,
and she that is bringing forth, together, a great company of them returning hither.
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They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring
them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in
it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the islands that are afar
off, and say: He that scattered Israel will gather him: and he will keep him as the
shepherd doth his flock.
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For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and delivered him out of the hand of one that was
mightier than he.
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And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and they shall flow together
to the good things of the Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase
of cattle and herds, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be
hungry no more.
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Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young men and old men together: and
I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them joyful after
their sorrow.
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And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: and my people shall be filled
with my good things, saith the Lord.
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Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping,
of Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted for them, because
they are not.
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Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thy eyes from tears: for
there is a reward for thy work, saith the Lord: and they shall return out of the land
of the enemy.
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And here is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the children shall return to
their own borders.
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Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I
was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall
be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.
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For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou didst shew unto me,
I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach
of my youth.
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Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender child: for since
I spoke of him, I will still remember him. Therefore are my bowels troubled for him:
pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.
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Set thee up a watchtower, make to thee bitterness: direct thy heart into the right
way, wherein thou hast walked: return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities.
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How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O wandering daughter? for the Lord
hath created a new thing upon the earth: A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN.
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Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As yet shall they say this word in
the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring back their captivity:
The Lord bless thee, the beauty of justice, the holy mountain.
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And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together: the husbandmen and they
that drive the docks.
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For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled every hungry soul.
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Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I saw, and my sleep was sweet
to me.
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Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house of Israel and the house
of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of beasts.
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And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and
destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith
the Lord.
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In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the
teeth of the children are set on edge.
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But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape,
his teeth shall be set on edge.
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Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:
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Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: the covenant which they made
void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.
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But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those
days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their
heart: 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 neighbour, and every man his brother, saying:
Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest,
saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no
more.
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Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the
moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the
waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.
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If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then also the seed of Israel
shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me for ever.
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Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of
the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast away all the seed of Israel, for
all that they have done, saith the Lord.
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Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from
the tower of Hanameel even to the gate of the corner.
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And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight upon the hill Gareb: and
it shall compass Goatha,
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And the whole valley of dead bodies and of ashes, and all the country of death, even
to the torrent Cedron, and the corner of the horse gate towards the east, the Holy
of the Lord: it shall not be plucked up, and it shall not be destroyed any more for
ever.