At the
same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of
all the families of Israel, and they shall be my
people.
02 Thus saith the Lord, The people which were
left of the sword found grace in the wilderness;
even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
03 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.
04 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be
built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be
adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in
the dances of them that make merry.
05 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains
of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall
eat them as common things.
06 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.
07 For thus saith the Lord; Sing with gladness
for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the
nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord,
save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
08 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.
09 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, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 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.
11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed
him from the hand of him that was stronger than
he.
12 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.
13 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.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests
with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied
with my goodness, saith the Lord.
15 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.
16 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 again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the
Lord, that thy children shall come again to their
own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself
thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was
chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke:
turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art
the Lord my God.
19 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.
20 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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21 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, turn again to these thy cities.
22 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.
23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel; 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.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in
all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and
they that go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have
replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep
was sweet unto me.
27 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.
28 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.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The
fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the
children's teeth are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity:
every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth
shall be set on edge.
31 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:
32 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:
33 But this shall be 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 write it in their hearts; and will be
their God, and they shall be my people.
34 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.
35 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:
36 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.
37 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.
38 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.
39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over
against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass
about to Goath.
40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and
of the ashes, and all the fields 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.
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