Jeremiah:31-32
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At that time ,
saith the LORD ,
will I be the God of all the families of Israel ,
and they shall be My people .
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Thus saith the LORD :
The people that were left of the sword have found grace in the wilderness ,
even Israel ,
when I go to cause him to rest .
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From afar the LORD appeared unto me .' '
Yea ,
I have loved thee with an everlasting love ;
therefore with affection have I drawn thee .
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Again will I build thee ,
and thou shalt be built ,
O virgin of Israel ;
again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets ,
and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry .
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Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria ;
the planters shall plant ,
and shall have the use thereof .
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For there shall be a day ,
that the watchmen shall call upon the mount Ephraim :
arise ye ,
and let us go up to Zion ,
unto the LORD our God .'
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For thus saith the LORD :
Sing with gladness for Jacob ,
and shout at the head of the nations ;
announce ye ,
praise ye ,
and say : '
O LORD ,
save Thy 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 travaileth with child together ;
a great company shall they return hither .
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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 become a father to Israel ,
and Ephraim is My first-born .
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Hear the word of the LORD ,
O ye nations ,
and declare it in the isles afar off ,
and say : '
He that scattered Israel doth gather him ,
and keep him ,
as a shepherd doth his flock .'
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For the LORD hath ransomed Jacob ,
and He redeemeth him from the hand of him that is stronger than he .
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And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion ,
and shall flow unto the goodness of the LORD ,
to the corn ,
and to the 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 pine 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 ,
saith the LORD .
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Thus saith the LORD :
A voice is heard in Ramah ,
lamentation ,
and bitter weeping ,
Rachel weeping for her children ;
she refuseth to be comforted for her children ,
because they are not .
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Thus saith the LORD :
Refrain thy voice from weeping ,
and thine eyes from tears ;
for thy work shall be rewarded ,
saith the LORD ;
and they shall come back from the land of the enemy .
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And there is hope for thy future ,
saith the LORD ;
and thy children shall return to their own border .
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I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself : '
Thou hast chastised me ,
and I was chastised ,
as a calf untrained ;
turn thou me ,
and I shall be turned ,
for Thou art the LORD 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 a darling son unto Me ?
Is he a child that is dandled ?
For as often as I speak of him ,
I do earnestly remember him still ;
Therefore My heart yearneth for him ,
I will surely have compassion upon him ,
saith the LORD .
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Set thee up waymarks ,
make thee guide-posts ;
set thy heart toward the high-way ,
even the way by which thou wentest ;
Return ,
O virgin of Israel ,
return to these thy cities .
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How long wilt thou turn away coyly ,
O thou backsliding daughter ?
For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth :
a woman shall court a man .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof ,
when I shall turn their captivity : '
The LORD bless thee ,
O habitation of righteousness ,
O mountain of holiness .'
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And Judah and all the cities thereof shall dwell therein together :
the husbandmen ,
and they that go forth with flocks .
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For I have satiated the weary soul ,
and every pining soul have I replenished .
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Upon this I awaked ,
and beheld ;
and my sleep was sweet unto me .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
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 ,
saith the LORD .
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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 eateth the sour grapes ,
his teeth shall be set on edge .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
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 ;
forasmuch as they broke My covenant ,
although I was a lord over them ,
saith the LORD .
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But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days ,
saith the LORD ,
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 neighbour ,
and every man his brother ,
saying : '
Know the LORD ';
for they shall all know Me ,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them ,
saith the LORD ;
for I will forgive their iniquity ,
and their sin will I remember no more .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
Who giveth the sun for a light by day ,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night ,
who stirreth up the sea ,
that the waves thereof roar ,
the LORD of hosts is His name :
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If these ordinances depart from before Me ,
saith the LORD ,
then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me for ever .
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Thus saith the LORD :
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 ,
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 Hananel unto the gate of the corner .
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And the measuring line shall yet go out straight forward unto the hill Gareb ,
and shall turn about unto Goah .
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And the whole valley of the dead bodies ,
and of the ashes ,
and all the fields unto the brook Kidron ,
unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east ,
shall be holy unto the LORD ;
it shall not be plucked up ,
nor thrown down any more for ever .
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah ,
which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar .
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Now at that time the king of Babylon '
s army was besieging Jerusalem ;
and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard ,
which was in the king of Judah '
s house .
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For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up ,
saying : '
Wherefore dost thou prophesy ,
and say :
Thus saith the LORD :
Behold ,
I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and he shall take it ;
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and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans ,
but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and shall speak with him mouth to mouth ,
and his eyes shall behold his eyes ;
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and he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon ,
and there shall he be until I remember him ,
saith the LORD ;
though ye fight with the Chaldeans ,
ye shall not prosper ?'
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And Jeremiah said : '
The word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying :
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Behold ,
Hanamel ,
the son of Shallum thine uncle ,
shall come unto thee ,
saying :
Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth ;
for the right of redemption is thine to buy it .'
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So Hanamel mine uncle '
s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the LORD ,
and said unto me : '
Buy my field ,
I pray thee ,
that is in Anathoth ,
which is in the land of Benjamin ;
for the right of inheritance is thine ,
and the redemption is thine ;
buy it for thyself .'
Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD .
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And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle '
s son ,
and weighed him the money ,
even seventeen shekels of silver .
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And I subscribed the deed ,
and sealed it ,
and called witnesses ,
and weighed him the money in the balances .
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So I took the deed of the purchase ,
both that which was sealed ,
containing the terms and conditions ,
and that which was open ;
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and I delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah ,
the son of Mahseiah ,
in the presence of Hanamel mine uncle '
s son ,
and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the deed of the purchase ,
before all the Jews that sat in the court of the guard .
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And I charged Baruch before them ,
saying :
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Take these deeds ,
this deed of the purchase ,
both that which is sealed ,
and this deed which is open ,
and put them in an earthen vessel ;
that they may continue many days .
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land .'
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Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah ,
I prayed unto the LORD ,
saying :
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Ah Lord GOD !
behold ,
Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and by Thy outstretched arm ;
there is nothing too hard for Thee ;
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who showest mercy unto thousands ,
and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them ;
the great ,
the mighty God ,
the LORD of hosts is His name ;
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great in counsel ,
and mighty in work ;
whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men ,
to give every one according to his ways ,
and according to the fruit of his doings ;
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who didst set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt ,
even unto this day ,
and in Israel and among other men ;
and madest Thee a name ,
as at this day ;
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and didst bring forth Thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs ,
and with wonders ,
and with a strong hand ,
and with an outstretched arm ,
and with great terror ;
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and gavest them this land ,
which Thou didst swear to their fathers to give them ,
a land flowing with milk and honey ;
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and they came in ,
and possessed it ;
but they hearkened not to Thy voice ,
neither walked in Thy law ;
they have done nothing of all that Thou commandedst them to do ;
therefore Thou hast caused all this evil to befall them ;
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behold the mounds ,
they are come unto the city to take it ;
and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it ,
because of the sword ,
and of the famine ,
and of the pestilence ;
and what Thou hast spoken is come to pass ;
and ,
behold ,
Thou seest it .
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Yet Thou hast said unto me ,
O Lord GOD :
Buy thee the field for money ,
and call witnesses ;
whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans .'
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Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah ,
saying :
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Behold ,
I am the LORD ,
the God of all flesh ;
is there any thing too hard for Me ?
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Therefore thus saith the LORD :
Behold ,
I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans ,
and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ,
and he shall take it ;
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and the Chaldeans ,
that fight against this city ,
shall come and set this city on fire ,
and burn it ,
with the houses ,
upon whose roofs they have offered unto Baal ,
and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods ,
to provoke Me .
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For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done that which was evil in My sight from their youth ;
for the children of Israel have only provoked Me with the work of their hands ,
saith the LORD .
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For this city hath been to Me a provocation of Mine anger and of My fury from the day that they built it even unto this day ,
that I should remove it from before My face ;
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because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah ,
which they have done to provoke Me ,
they ,
their kings ,
their princes ,
their priests ,
and their prophets ,
and the men of Judah ,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem .
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And they have turned unto Me the back ,
and not the face ;
and though I taught them ,
teaching them betimes and often ,
yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction .
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But they set their abominations in the house whereupon My name is called ,
to defile it .
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And they built the high places of Baal ,
which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
to set apart their sons and their daughters unto Molech ;
which I commanded them not ,
neither came it into My mind ,
that they should do this abomination ;
to cause Judah to sin .
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And now therefore thus saith the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
concerning this city ,
whereof ye say :
It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword ,
and by the famine ,
and by the pestilence :
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Behold ,
I will gather them out of all the countries ,
whither I have driven them in Mine anger ,
and in My fury ,
and in great wrath ;
and I will bring them back unto this place ,
and I will cause them to dwell safely ;
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and they shall be My people ,
and I will be their God ;
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and I will give them one heart and one way ,
that they may fear Me for ever ;
for the good of them ,
and of their children after them ;
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and I will make an everlasting covenant with them ,
that I will not turn away from them ,
to do them good ;
and I will put My fear in their hearts ,
that they shall not depart from Me .
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Yea ,
I will rejoice over them to do them good ,
and I will plant them in this land in truth with My whole heart and with My whole soul .
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For thus saith the LORD :
Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people ,
so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them .
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And fields shall be bought in this land ,
whereof ye say :
It is desolate ,
without man or beast ;
it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans .
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Men shall buy fields for money ,
and subscribe the deeds ,
and seal them ,
and call witnesses ,
in the land of Benjamin ,
and in the places about Jerusalem ,
and in the cities of Judah ,
and in the cities of the hill-country ,
and in the cities of the Lowland ,
and in the cities of the South ;
for I will cause their captivity to return ,
saith the LORD .'
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time ,
while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard ,
saying :