31:1 At that time, saith the Lord, I will be
a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people.
31:2 Thus saith the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that
were slain with the sword: go ye and destroy not Israel.
31:3 The Lord appeared to him from afar, [saying], I have loved thee with an
everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee in compassion.
31:4 For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel:
thou shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that
make merry.
31:5 For ye have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant ye,
and praise.
31:6 For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall
call, [saying], Arise ye, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.
31:7 For thus saith the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice ye, and exult over the head
of the nations: make proclamation, and praise ye: say, The Lord has
delivered his people, the remnant of Israel.
31:8 Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end
of the earth to the feast of the passover: and [the people] shall beget a
great multitude, and they shall return hither.
31:9 They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with
consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight
way, and they shall not err in it: for I am become a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my first-born.
31:10 Hear the words of the Lord, ye nations, and proclaim [them] to the
islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and
keep him as one that feeds his flock.
31:11 For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of
them [that were] stronger than he.
31:12 And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Sion, and shall
come to the good things of the Lord, [even] to a land of corn, and wine, and
fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their soul shall be as a fruitful tree;
and they shall hunger no more.
31:13 Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old
men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make
them merry.
31:14 I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests the sons of
Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good things: thus saith the
Lord.
31:15 A voice was heard in Rama, of lamentation, and of weeping, and
wailing; Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are
not.
31:16 Thus saith the Lord; Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thine eyes
from thy tears: for their is a reward for thy works; and they shall return
from the land of [thine] enemies.
31:17 [There shall be] an abiding [home] for thy children.
31:18 I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], Thou hast
chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly] taught:
turn thou me, and I shall turn; for thou [art] the Lord my God.
31:19 For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the
day of shame, and shewed thee that I bore reproach from my youth.
31:20 Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words
are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste [to help]
him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
31:21 Prepare thyself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to thy ways: return,
O virgin of Israel, by the way by which thou wentest, return mourning to thy
cities.
31:22 How long, O disgraced daughter, wilt thou turn away? for the Lord has
created safety for a new plantation: men shall go about in safety.
31:2 For thus saith the Lord; They shall yet speak this word in the land of
Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn his captivity; blessed be
the Lord on his righteous holy mountain!
31:24 And there shall be dwellers in the cities of Juda, and in all his
land, together with the husbandman, and [the shepherd] shall go forth with
the flock.
31:25 For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry
soul.
31:26 Therefore I awake, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.
31:27 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will sow the
house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of man, and the seed of
beast.
31:28 And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down,
and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the
Lord.
31:29 In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour
grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge.
31:30 But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats
the sour grape shall be set on edge.
31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:
31:32 not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the
day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith the Lord.
31:33 For this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel;
after those days, saith the Lord, I will surely put my laws into their mind,
and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall
be to me a people.
31:34 And they shall not at all teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and
every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from
the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their
iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
31:35 Thus saith the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon
and the stars for a light by night, and [makes] a roaring in the sea, so
that the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name:
31:36 if these ordinances cease from before me, saith the Lord, then shall
the family of Israel cease to be a nation before me forever.
31:37 Though the sky should be raised to a [greater] height, saith the Lord,
and though the ground of the earth should be sunk [lower] beneath, yet I
will not cast off the family of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that they
have done.
31:38 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the city shall be built to
the Lord from the tower of Anameel to the gate of the corner.
31:39 And the measurement of it shall proceed in front of them as far as the
hills of Gareb, and it shall be compassed with a circular wall of choice
stones.
31:40 And all the Asaremoth even to Nachal Kedron, as far as the corner of
the horse-gate eastward, shall be holiness to the Lord; and it shall not
fail any more, and shall not be destroyed for ever. |
31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will
I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
31:2 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.
31:3 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.
31:4 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.
31:5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters
shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
31:6 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.
31:7 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.
31:8 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.
31:9 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.
31:10 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.
31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of
him that was stronger than he.
31:12 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.
31:13 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.
31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people
shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
31:15 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.
31:16 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.
31:17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children
shall come again to their own border.
31:18 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.
31:19 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.
31:20 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.
31:21 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.
31:22 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.
31:23 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.
31:24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof
together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every
sorrowful soul.
31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
31:27 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.
31:28 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.
31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour
grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth
the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31:31 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:
31:32 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:
31:33 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.
31:34 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.
31:35 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:
31:36 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.
31:37 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.
31:38 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.
31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the
hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
31:40 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. |