Jeremiah 31

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1. 1"When that time comes," declares the LORD, "I will be the God of every family in Israel, and they will be my people."
2. 2The LORD says, "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness — Israel found it when I led them to a place of rest."
3. 3The LORD appeared to me long ago, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have drawn you with lovingkindness.'
4. 4I will rebuild you, and you will be rebuilt, O virgin Israel. You will pick up your tambourines again and join in the dances of those who celebrate.
5. 5You will plant vineyards once more on the mountains of Samaria. Those who plant them will eat the fruit as ordinary food.
6. 6"A day is coming when watchmen on the hills of Ephraim will shout, 'Come on! Let's go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!'"
7. 7This is what the LORD says: "Sing with joy for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations. Proclaim, praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel!'"
8. 8"Watch — I will bring them back from the north and gather them from the farthest corners of the earth. The blind and the lame will come, along with pregnant women and those in labor. A vast crowd will return."
9. 9"They will come weeping, pouring out prayers as I lead them home. I will guide them along streams of water on a level road where they won't stumble, because I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn son."
10. 10"Listen to the word of the LORD, you nations! Announce it on distant shores: 'The one who scattered Israel will gather them back and watch over them like a shepherd guards his flock.'"
11. 11For the LORD has redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
12. 12They will come and sing for joy on the heights of Zion, streaming toward the LORD's goodness — the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, the young lambs and calves. Their soul will be like a well-watered garden, and they will never grieve again.
13. 13Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and both young men and old will celebrate together. I will turn their mourning into joy, comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14. 14I will satisfy the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness, declares the LORD.
15. 15The LORD says, "A voice is heard in Ramah — bitter crying and weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are gone."
16. 16The LORD says, "Hold back your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded," declares the LORD. "They will return from the land of the enemy."
17. 17"There is hope for your future," declares the LORD. "Your children will come back to their own land."
18. 18I have clearly heard Ephraim grieving: 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a young bull unaccustomed to the yoke. Turn me back, and I will return, because you are the LORD my God.'
19. 19Surely after I turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth.
20. 20Is Ephraim not my precious son? Is he not a child I delight in? Even though I often speak against him, I still think about him constantly. Therefore, I am deeply moved for him. I will surely have mercy on him," declares the LORD.
21. 21"Set up road markers and put up guideposts for yourself. Pay attention to the highway — the road you traveled before. Come back, virgin Israel! Return to your cities."
22. 22How long will you wander, you unfaithful daughter? The LORD has created something new on the earth: a woman will surround a man.
23. 23The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says, "When I restore their fortunes, people in the land of Judah and its cities will once again say, 'May the LORD bless you, home of righteousness, mountain of holiness.'"
24. 24"Farmers and shepherds with their flocks will live together in Judah and all its cities."
25. 25For I have satisfied the weary soul, and I have filled every sorrowful soul.
26. 26At this I woke up and looked around, and my sleep had been peaceful.
27. 27"The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of people and the seed of animals."
28. 28"Just as I watched over them to uproot, tear down, overthrow, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build up and to plant," declares the LORD.
29. 29"In those days, people will no longer say, 'The parents ate sour grapes, and their children's teeth ache because of it.'"
30. 30"Instead, each person will die for their own sin. Whoever eats the sour grapes — their own teeth will ache."
31. 31"The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah."
32. 32"It won't be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt — a covenant they broke, even though I was like a husband to them," declares the LORD.
33. 33"Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD. "I will put my law inside them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people."
34. 34"They will no longer teach every person his neighbor, and every person his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," says the LORD. "For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."
35. 35This is what the LORD says, who gives the sun for light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; the LORD of hosts is his name:
36. 36If those ordinances ever depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel will cease to be a nation before me forever.
37. 37This is what the LORD says: "If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the descendants of Israel for all that they have done," says the LORD.
38. 38"The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this city will be rebuilt for the LORD, from the tower of Hananeel to the Corner Gate."
39. 39"The measuring line will stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goath."
40. 40"The entire valley where dead bodies and ashes were thrown, and all the fields out to the Kidron brook and over to the corner of the Horse Gate on the east — all of it will be holy to the LORD. It will never be torn down or destroyed again."