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1 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.