Jeremiah:31

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* At that time , says Yahweh , will I be the God of all the families of Israel , and they shall be my people . * Thus says Yahweh , The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness ; even Israel , when I went to cause him to rest . * Yahweh appeared of old to me , saying , Yes , I have loved you with an everlasting love : therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you . * Again will I build you , and you shall be built , O virgin of Israel : again you shall be adorned with your tambourines , and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry . * Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria ; the planters shall plant , and shall enjoy its fruit . * For there shall be a day , that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry , Arise , and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God . * For thus says Yahweh , Sing with gladness for Jacob , and shout for the chief of the nations : publish , praise , and say , Yahweh , save your people , the remnant of Israel . * Behold , I will bring them from the north country , and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth , along with the blind and the lame , the woman with child and her who travails with child together : a great company shall they return here . * They shall come with weeping ; and with petitions will I lead them : I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters , in a straight way in which they shall not stumble ; for I am a father to Israel , and Ephraim is my firstborn . * Hear the word of Yahweh , you nations , and declare it in the islands afar off ; and say , He who scattered Israel will gather him , and keep him , as shepherd does his flock . * For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob , and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he . * They shall come and sing in the height of Zion , and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh , 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 . * 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 . * I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness , and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness , says Yahweh . * Thus says Yahweh : 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 no more . * Thus says Yahweh : Refrain your voice from weeping , and your eyes from tears ; for your work shall be rewarded , says Yahweh ; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy . * There is hope for your latter end , says Yahweh ; and your children shall come again to their own border . * I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus , You have chastised me , and I was chastised , as an untrained calf : turn me , and I shall be turned ; for you are Yahweh my God . * Surely after that I was turned , I repented ; and after that I was instructed , I struck on my thigh : I was ashamed , yes , even confounded , because I bore the reproach of my youth . * 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 on him , says Yahweh . * Set up road signs , make guideposts ; set your heart toward the highway , even the way by which you went : turn again , virgin of Israel , turn again to these your cities . * How long will you go here and there , you backsliding daughter ? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth : a woman shall encompass a man . * Thus says Yahweh of Armies , 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 : Yahweh bless you , habitation of righteousness , mountain of holiness . * Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together , the farmers , and those who go about with flocks . * For I have satiated the weary soul , and every sorrowful soul have I replenished . * On this I awakened , and saw ; and my sleep was sweet to me . * Behold , the days come , says Yahweh , that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man , and with the seed of animal . * It shall happen 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 Yahweh . * In those days they shall say no more , The fathers have eaten sour grapes , and the children 's teeth are set on edge . * But everyone shall die for his own iniquity : every man who eats the sour grapes , his teeth shall be set on edge . * Behold , the days come , says Yahweh , that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel , and with the house of Judah : * 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 broke , although I was a husband to them , says Yahweh . * But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days , says Yahweh : 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 : * and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor , and every man his brother , saying , Know Yahweh ; for they shall all know me , from their least to their greatest , says Yahweh : for I will forgive their iniquity , and their sin will I remember no more . * Thus says Yahweh , 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 ; Yahweh of Armies is his name : * If these ordinances depart from before me , says Yahweh , then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever . * Thus says Yahweh : 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 Yahweh . * Behold , the days come , says Yahweh , that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner . * The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb , and shall turn about to Goah . * 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 Yahweh ; it shall not be plucked up , nor thrown down any more forever .

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