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chapter 31
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that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of and they
shall be my people.
2 Thus saith the Lord: The people were left and escaped
from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall to his rest.
3 The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have
loved thee with everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on
thee.
4 And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built,
0 virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go
forth in the dances of them that make merry.
5 Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of
Samaria: the planters shall plant, and they shall not gather the vintage before
the time.
6 For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on
mount Ephraim, shall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God.
7 For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in the joy of
Jacob, and neigh before the head of the Gentiles: shout ye, and sing, and say:
Save, O Lord, thy people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold I will bring them from the north country, and
will gather them from the ends of the earth: and among them shall be the blind,
and the lame, the woman with child, and she that is bringing forth, together, a
great company of them returning hither.
9 They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them
back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right
way, and they shall not stumble in it: 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 islands that are afar off, and say: He that scattered Israel will
gather him: and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his flock.
11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and delivered him
out of the hand of one that was mightier than he.
12 And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount
Sion: and they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the
corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul
shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the
young men and old men together: and I will turn their mourning into joy, and
will comfort them, and make them joyful after their sorrow.
14 And I will fill the soul of the priests with
fatness: and my people shall be filled with my good things, saith the Lord.
15 Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation,
of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to
be comforted for them, because they are not.
16 Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease from
weeping, and thy eyes from tears: for there is a reward for thy work, saith the
Lord: and they shall return out of the land of the enemy.
17 And here is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord:
and the children shall return to their own borders.
18 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity:
thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed
to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my
God.
19 For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and
after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed,
because I have borne the reproach of my youth.
20 Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he
is a tender child: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him.
Therefore are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the
Lord.
21 Set thee up a watchtower, make to thee bitterness:
direct thy heart into the right way, wherein thou hast walked: return, O virgin
of Israel, return to these thy cities.
22 How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O
wandering daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth: A
WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN.
23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As
yet shall they say this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof,
when I shall bring back their captivity: The Lord bless thee, the beauty of
justice, the holy mountain.
24 And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein
together: the husbandmen and they that drive the docks.
25 For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have
filled every hungry soul.
26 Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep,
and I saw, and my sleep was sweet to me.
27 Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow
the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the
seed of beasts.
28 And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to
throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over
them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.
29 In those days they shall say no more: The fathers
have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every
man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31 Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:
33 Not according to the covenant which I made with
their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the
land of Egypt: the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over 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 give my law in
their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I 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 all shall know
me from the least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will
forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the
light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the
night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts
is his name.
36 If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the
Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before
me for ever.
37 Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be
measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I also will
cast away 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 Hanameel even to the gate of the
corner.
39 And the measuring line shall go out farther in his
sight upon the hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha,
40 And the whole valley of dead bodies and of ashes,
and all the country of death, even to the torrent Cedron, and the corner of the
horse gate towards the east, the Holy of the Lord: it shall not be plucked up,
and it shall not be destroyed any more for ever.
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