[1] At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of
Israel, and they shall be my people. [2] Thus says Yahweh, The people who
were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I
went to cause him to rest. [3] Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes,
I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness
have I drawn you. [4] Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O
virgin of Israel: again shall you be adorned with your tambourines, and
shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry. [5] Again shall you
plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and
shall enjoy [the fruit of it]. [6] For there shall be a day, that the
watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to
Zion to Yahweh our God. [7] For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for
Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and
say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel. [8] Behold, I will
bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts
of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child
and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return
here. [9] They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead
them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in
which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is
my firstborn. [10] Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in
the isles afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and
keep him, as shepherd does his flock. [11] For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob,
and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. [12] They
shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness
of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to 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, and the young men and the old together; for I
will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them
rejoice from their sorrow. [14] I will satiate the soul of the priests with
fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.
[15] Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter
weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for
her children, because they are no more. [16] Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your
voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be
rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the
enemy. [17] There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your]
children shall come again to their own border. [18] I have surely heard
Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was
chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall
be turned; for you are Yahweh my God. [19] Surely after that I was turned,
I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was
ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
[20] Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak
against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns
for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh. [21] Set up road
signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by
which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your
cities. [22] How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter?
for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a
man. [23] Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall
they use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities of it, when I
shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of
righteousness, mountain of holiness. [24] Judah and all the cities of it
shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with
flocks. [25] For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul
have I replenished. [26] On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was
sweet to me. [27] Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the
house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the
seed of animal. [28] It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them
to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to
afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh. [29]
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children`s teeth are set on edge. [30] But everyone shall die for
his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be
set on edge. [31] Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, 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 broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh. [33]
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in
their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people: [34] and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every
man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the
least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive
their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more. [35] Thus says
Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the
moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that
the waves of it roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name: [36] If these ordinances
depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall
cease from being a nation before me forever. [37] Thus says Yahweh: If
heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out
beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they
have done, says Yahweh. [38] Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the
city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the
corner. [39] The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the
hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah. [40] The whole valley of the dead
bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the
corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall
not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.

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