Jeremiah:31
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At the same time ,
saith the LORD ,
will I be the God of all the families of Israel Yisra #
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and they shall be my people .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness ;
even Israel Yisra #
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when I went to cause him to rest .
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The LORD hath appeared of old unto me ,
saying ,
Yea ,
I have loved thee with an everlasting love :
therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee .
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Again I will build thee ,
and thou shalt be built ,
O virgin of Israel Yisra #
el #:
thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets ,
and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry .
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Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria :
the planters shall plant ,
and shall eat them as common things .
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For there shall be a day ,
that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry ,
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 Ya #
aqob #,
and shout among the chief of the nations :
publish ye ,
praise ye ,
and say ,
O LORD ,
save thy people ,
the remnant of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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Behold ,
I will bring them from the north country ,
and gather them from the coasts 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 return thither .
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They shall come with weeping ,
and with supplications will I lead them :
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way ,
wherein they shall not stumble :
for I am a father to Israel Yisra #
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and Ephraim is my firstborn .
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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 will gather him ,
and keep him ,
as a shepherd doth his flock .
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For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob Ya #
aqob #,
and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he .
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Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion ,
and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD ,
for wheat ,
and for wine ,
and for oil ,
and for 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 ,
both young men and 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 was heard in Ramah ,
lamentation ,
and bitter weeping ;
Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children ,
because they were not .
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Refrain thy voice from weeping ,
and thine eyes from tears dim #
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for thy work shall be rewarded ,
saith the LORD ;
and they shall come again from the land of the enemy .
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And there is hope in thine end ,
saith the LORD ,
that thy children shall come again to their own border .
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I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus ;
Thou hast chastised me ,
and I was chastised ,
as a bullock unaccustomed lo #
to the yoke :
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 na #
uwr #.
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Is Ephraim my dear son ?
is he a pleasant child ?
for since I spake against him ,
I do earnestly remember him still :
therefore my bowels are troubled for him ;
I will surely have mercy upon him ,
saith the LORD .
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Set thee up waymarks ,
make thee high heaps :
set thine heart toward the highway ,
even the way which thou wentest :
turn again ,
O virgin of Israel Yisra #
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turn again to these thy cities .
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How long wilt thou go about ,
O thou backsliding daughter ?
for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth ,
A woman shall compass a man .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel Yisra #
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As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof ,
when I shall bring again their captivity ;
The LORD bless thee ,
O habitation of justice ,
and mountain of holiness .
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And there shall dwell in Judah itself ,
and in all the cities thereof together ,
husbandmen ,
and they that go forth with flocks .
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For I have satiated the weary soul ,
and I have replenished every sorrowful soul .
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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 throw down ,
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 a sour grape ,
and the childrens teeth are set on edge .
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But every one shall die for his own iniquity :
every man that eateth the sour grape ,
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 Yisra #
el #,
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 an husband unto them ,
saith the LORD :
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But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel Yisra #
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After those days ,
saith the LORD ,
I will put my law in their inward parts ,
and write it in their hearts ;
and 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 I will remember their sin no more .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
which giveth the sun for a light by day ,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night ,
which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar ;
The LORD of hosts is his name :
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If those 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 ,
I will 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 Hananeel unto the gate of the corner .
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And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb ,
and shall compass about to Goath Go #
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And the whole valley of the dead bodies ,
and of the ashes ,
and all the fields sh @
unto the brook of 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 .