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1 At the same time, says Jehovah, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
2 Thus says Jehovah, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
3 Jehovah has appeared of old to me, saying, yes, I have loved you with a Kingdom love, therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, Oh virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.
5 You shall 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 you, and let us go up to Zion to Jehovah our God.
7 For thus says Jehovah, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, Oh Jehovah, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
8 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 who travails with child together: a great company shall return.
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, in which they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of Jehovah, Oh 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 redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, 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 satisfy the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Jehovah.
15 Thus says Jehovah; 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 says Jehovah; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in your end, says Jehovah, that your children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Jehovah my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I was sorry; and after that I was instructed, I struck upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, 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 spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my [inward parts] are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says Jehovah.
21 Set you up monuments, make you high heaps: set your mind toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, Oh virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, Oh you backsliding daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the Earth, A woman shall enclose a man.
23 Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities, when I shall bring again their captivity; Jehovah bless you, Oh habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities together, husbandmen, and those who go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satisfied the weary soul, and I have satisfied every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awoke, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
27 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 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, says Jehovah.
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 everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31 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; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says Jehovah, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their minds; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the great of them, says Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus says Jehovah, which gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divides the sea when the waves roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, says Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for a time.
37 Thus says Jehovah; 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, says Jehovah.
38 the days come, says Jehovah, that the city shall be built to Jehovah from the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the corner.
39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall encompass to Goath.
40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the East, shall be holy to Jehovah; it shall not be plucked up, Northrown down any more through the Kingdom Age.