31 At
the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of
Israel, and they shall be my people. 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 Thou
shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall
plant, and shall eat them as common things. 6 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. 7 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. 8 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. 9 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.
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. .