At the same time, saith theLORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Thus saith theLORD, The peoplewhich wereleft of the sword found grace in the wilderness;evenIsrael, when I went to cause him to rest.
TheLORDhath appeared of old unto me,saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
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.
Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eatthemas common things.
For there shall be a day,thatthe watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto theLORDour God.
For thus saith theLORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, OLORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth,andwith them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
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 Ephraimismy firstborn.
Hear the word of theLORD, O ye nations, and declareitin the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherddothhis flock.
For theLORDhath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand ofhim that wasstronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of theLORD, 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.
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.
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith theLORD.
Thus saith theLORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation,andbitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because theywerenot.
Thus saith theLORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith theLORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
And there is hope in thine end, saith theLORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himselfthus;Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomedto the yoke:turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thouarttheLORDmy God.
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote uponmythigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
IsEphraim my dear son?is hea 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 theLORD.
Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway,eventhe waywhichthou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for theLORDhath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Thus saith theLORDof 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; TheLORDbless thee, O habitation of justice,andmountain of holiness.
And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and theythatgo forth with flocks.
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
Behold, the days come, saith theLORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
And it shall come to pass,thatlike 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 theLORD.
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Behold, the days come, saith theLORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the daythatI 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 theLORD:
But thisshall bethe covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith theLORD, 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.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know theLORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith theLORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Thus saith theLORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day,andthe ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; TheLORDof hostsishis name:
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith theLORD,thenthe seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Thus saith theLORD; 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 theLORD.
Behold, the days come, saith theLORD, that the city shall be built to theLORDfrom the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
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 beholy unto theLORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.