Jeremiah, starting at chapter 31
{31:1} At that time, says the LORD, will I be the God of all the
families of Israel, and they shall be my people. {31:2} Thus says the
LORD, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the
wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. {31:3} The
LORD appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an
everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
{31:4} Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of
Israel: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go
forth in the dances of those who make merry. {31:5} Again you shall
plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant,
and shall enjoy its fruit. {31:6} For there shall be a day, that the
watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to
Zion to the LORD our God. {31:7} For thus says the LORD, Sing with
gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish,
praise, and say, the LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
{31:8} Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather
them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and
the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child
together: a great company shall they return here. {31:9} 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. {31:10} Hear the word of the LORD, you nations, and declare
it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will
gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock. {31:11} For the
LORD has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was
stronger than he. {31:12} They shall come and sing in the height of
Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of the LORD, 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. {31:13} 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. {31:14} I will satiate the soul of the priests with
fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the
LORD. {31:15} Thus says the LORD: 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.
{31:16} Thus says the LORD: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your
eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and
they shall come again from the land of the enemy. {31:17} There is
hope for your latter end, says the LORD; and your children shall come
again to their own border. {31:18} I have surely heard Ephraim
bemoaning himself thus, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as
an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the
LORD my God. {31:19} 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 bore the reproach of my youth. {31:20} 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 the LORD.
{31:21} 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. {31:22} How long will you go here and
there, you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing
in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man. {31:23} Thus says the
LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech
in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their
captivity: the LORD bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain
of holiness. {31:24} Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein
together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. {31:25} For
I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I
replenished. {31:26} On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was
sweet to me. {31:27} Behold, the days come, says 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 animal. {31:28} 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 the LORD. {31:29} In those days they shall say no more,
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set
on edge. {31:30} But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every
man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. {31:31}
Behold, the days come, says 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 broke, although I was a husband to them, says
the LORD. {31:33} But this is the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: 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: {31:34} and they shall teach
no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
Know the LORD; for they shall all know me, from their least to their
greatest, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their
sin will I remember no more. {31:35} Thus says the LORD, 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 its waves
roar; the LORD of Hosts is his name: {31:36} If these ordinances
depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also
shall cease from being a nation before me forever. {31:37} Thus says
the LORD: 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 the LORD. {31:38} Behold, the
days come, says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD
from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. {31:39} The
measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb,
and shall turn about to Goah. {31:40} 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 the
LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.
{32:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth
year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadnezzar. {32:2} Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was
besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court
of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house. {32:3} For
Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy,
and say, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; {32:4} and Zedekiah
king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Kasdim, but
shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes;
{32:5} and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he shall be there
until I visit him, says the LORD: though you fight with the Kasdim,
you shall not prosper? {32:6} Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came
to me, saying, {32:7} Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle
shall come to you, saying, Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the
right of redemption is yours to buy it. {32:8} So Hanamel my uncle's
son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the
LORD, and said to me, Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which
is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and
the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this
was the word of the LORD. {32:9} I bought the field that was in
Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even
seventeen shekels of silver. {32:10} I subscribed the deed, and sealed
it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
{32:11} So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was
sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
{32:12} and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of
Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's
son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of
the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.
{32:13} I commanded Baruch before them, saying, {32:14} Thus says the
LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the
purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in
an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days. {32:15} For thus
says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and
vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land. {32:16} Now after I
had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I
prayed to the LORD, saying, {32:17} Ah Lord GOD! Behold, you have made
the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched
arm; there is nothing too hard for you, {32:18} who show loving
kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into
the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, the
LORD of Hosts is his name; {32:19} great in counsel, and mighty in
work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give
everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings: {32:20} who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made
yourself a name, as in this day; {32:21} and brought forth your people
Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with
a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
{32:22} and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to
give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; {32:23} and they came
in, and possessed it, but they didn't obey your voice, neither walked
in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to
do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come on them. {32:24}
Behold, the mounds, they have come to the city to take it; and the
city is given into the hand of the Kasdim who fight against it,
because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and
what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it. {32:25} You
have said to me, Lord GOD, Buy the field for money, and call
witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Kasdim.
{32:26} Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying, {32:27}
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too
hard for me? {32:28} Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the Kasdim, and into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: {32:29} and the
Kasdim, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on
fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered
incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to
provoke me to anger. {32:30} For the children of Israel and the
children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from
their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger
with the work of their hands, says the LORD. {32:31} For this city has
been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that
they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my
face, {32:32} because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of
the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger,
they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {32:33} They
have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught
them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to
receive instruction. {32:34} But they set their abominations in the
house which is called by my name, to defile it. {32:35} They built the
high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to
cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molech;
which I didn't command them, neither did it come into my mind, that
they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. {32:36} Now
therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city,
about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon
by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: {32:37}
Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have
driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation;
and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to
dwell safely: {32:38} and they shall be my people, and I will be their
God: {32:39} and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may
fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
{32:40} and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will
not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my
fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me. {32:41} Yes, I
will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this
land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. {32:42} For
thus says the LORD: Like as I have brought all this great evil on this
people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have promised
them. {32:43} Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you
say, It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand
of the Kasdim. {32:44} Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe
the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin,
and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in
the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and
in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to
return, says the LORD.
{33:1} Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second
time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
{33:2} Thus says the LORD who does it, the LORD who forms it to
establish it; the LORD is his name: {33:3} Call to me, and I will
answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you
don't know. {33:4} For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel,
concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the
kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the
mounds and against the sword; {33:5} while men come to fight with the
Kasdim, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have
killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I
have hidden my face from this city: {33:6} Behold, I will bring it
health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them
abundance of peace and truth. {33:7} I will cause the captivity of
Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as
at the first. {33:8} I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by
which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their
iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which they
have transgressed against me. {33:9} This city shall be to me for a
name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of
the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall
fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure
to it. {33:10} Thus says the LORD: Yet again there shall be heard in
this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without
animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without
animal, {33:11} the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who
say, Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good, for his
loving kindness endures forever; who bring thanksgiving into the house
of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as
at the first, says the LORD. {33:12} Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Yet
again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and
without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds
causing their flocks to lie down. {33:13} In the cities of the hill
country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South,
and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in
the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of
him who numbers them, says the LORD. {33:14} Behold, the days come,
says the LORD, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken
concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
{33:15} In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of
righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and
righteousness in the land. {33:16} In those days shall Judah be saved,
and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name by which she
shall be called: the LORD our righteousness. {33:17} For thus says the
LORD: David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house
of Israel; {33:18} neither shall the priests the Levites want a man
before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to
do sacrifice continually. {33:19} The word of the LORD came to
Jeremiah, saying, {33:20} Thus says the LORD: If you can break my
covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall
not be day and night in their season; {33:21} then may also my
covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son
to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my
ministers. {33:22} As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither
the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my
servant, and the Levites who minister to me. {33:23} The word of the
LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, {33:24} Don't consider what this people
has spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD chose, he has cast
them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more
a nation before them. {33:25} Thus says the LORD: If my covenant of
day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven
and earth; {33:26} then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and
of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers
over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their
captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
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