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1 At that time, says Jehovah, I will be the God of all the families of Israel and they will be my people.
2 Jehovah says thus: The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness, even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. 3 Jehovah appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you.
4 Again I will build you and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. Again you will be adorned with your tambourine and will go forth in the dances of those who make merry. 5 Again you will plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant and will enjoy it. 6 For there will be a day that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim will cry, Arise and let us go up to Zion to Jehovah our God.
7 For Jehovah says thus: Sing with gladness for Jacob and shout for the chief of the nations. Proclaim, praise and say, O Jehovah, save your people, the remnant of Israel. 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the outermost parts of the earth and with them the blind man and the lame man, the woman with child and she who travails with child together. They will return here a great company.
9 They will come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of Jehovah, O you* nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For Jehovah has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. 12 And they will come and sing in the height of Zion and will flow to the goodness of Jehovah, 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 will be as a watered garden and they will not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then the virgin will 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 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness and my people will be satisfied with my goodness, says Jehovah.
15 Jehovah says thus: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel weeping for her children, she refused to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
16 Jehovah says thus: Refrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded, says Jehovah and they will come again from the land of the enemy. 17 And there is hope for your latter end, says Jehovah and your sons will come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim sympathize within himself saying, You have disciplined me and I was disciplined as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke. Turn me back and I will be turned back, for you are Jehovah my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned back. I repented and after I was instructed, I killed* upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore 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 upon him, says Jehovah.
21 Set up road marks. You make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. 22 How long will you go here and there, O you backsliding daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.
23 Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities of it when I will bring again their captivity: Jehovah bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of holiness.
24 And Judah and all the cities of it will dwell in there together, the farmer and those who go about with flocks. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul and every sorrowful soul I have replenished. 26 Upon this I awoke and beheld and my sleep was sweet to me.
27 Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, 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 will happen that, just as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says Jehovah.
29 In those days they will no more say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the son's teeth are set on edge. 30 But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, 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, because they did not continue in my covenant and I disregarded them, says Jehovah.
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Jehovah: I will give my laws into their mind and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.
2 Jehovah says thus: The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness, even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. 3 Jehovah appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you.
4 Again I will build you and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. Again you will be adorned with your tambourine and will go forth in the dances of those who make merry. 5 Again you will plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant and will enjoy it. 6 For there will be a day that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim will cry, Arise and let us go up to Zion to Jehovah our God.
7 For Jehovah says thus: Sing with gladness for Jacob and shout for the chief of the nations. Proclaim, praise and say, O Jehovah, save your people, the remnant of Israel. 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the outermost parts of the earth and with them the blind man and the lame man, the woman with child and she who travails with child together. They will return here a great company.
9 They will come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of Jehovah, O you* nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For Jehovah has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. 12 And they will come and sing in the height of Zion and will flow to the goodness of Jehovah, 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 will be as a watered garden and they will not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then the virgin will 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 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness and my people will be satisfied with my goodness, says Jehovah.
15 Jehovah says thus: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel weeping for her children, she refused to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
16 Jehovah says thus: Refrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded, says Jehovah and they will come again from the land of the enemy. 17 And there is hope for your latter end, says Jehovah and your sons will come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim sympathize within himself saying, You have disciplined me and I was disciplined as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke. Turn me back and I will be turned back, for you are Jehovah my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned back. I repented and after I was instructed, I killed* upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore 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 upon him, says Jehovah.
21 Set up road marks. You make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. 22 How long will you go here and there, O you backsliding daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.
23 Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities of it when I will bring again their captivity: Jehovah bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of holiness.
24 And Judah and all the cities of it will dwell in there together, the farmer and those who go about with flocks. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul and every sorrowful soul I have replenished. 26 Upon this I awoke and beheld and my sleep was sweet to me.
27 Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, 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 will happen that, just as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says Jehovah.
29 In those days they will no more say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the son's teeth are set on edge. 30 But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, 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, because they did not continue in my covenant and I disregarded them, says Jehovah.
33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Jehovah: I will give my laws into their mind and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.