Jeremiah 30–31

30^*The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, ²Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, ^aWrite thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. ³For, lo, ^aathe days come, saith the Lord, that ^bI will bring again the captivity of my people ^cIsrael and Judah, saith the Lord: and ^dI will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. ⁴And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning ^cIsrael and concerning Judah. ⁵For thus saith the Lord;

We have heard a voice of trembling,

^||Of fear, and not of peace.

⁶Ask ye now, and see whether ^†a man doth travail with child?

Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, ^eas a woman in travail,

And ^fall faces are turned into paleness?

⁷Alas! for ^gthat day is great, ^hso that none is like it:

It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;

But he shall be saved out of it.

⁸For it shall come to pass ⁱin that day, saith the Lord of hosts,

That ^jI will break his ^kyoke from off thy neck,

And ^jlwill burst ^jthy bonds,

And ^mstrangers shall no more ^lserve themselves of him:

⁹But they shall serve the Lord their God,

And ⁿDavid their king, ^owhom I will raise up unto them.

^10pTherefore ^qfear thou not, O ^rmy servant Jacob, saith the Lord;

Neither be dismayed, O Israel:

^pFor, lo, I will save thee from afar,

And thy seed ^sfrom the land of their captivity;

^pAnd Jacob shall return,

^pAnd shall be in rest, and ^tbe quiet,

^puAnd none shall make him afraid.

^11qvFor I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee:

^vwThough I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee,

^vwxYet will I not make a full end of thee:

But I will correct thee ^yin measure,

^vAnd ^yywill not leave thee altogether unpunished.

¹²For thus saith the Lord,

Thy bruise is ^zincurable,

And ^athy wound is grievous.

¹³There is none to plead thy cause, ^†that thou mayest be bound up:

^cThou hast no healing medicines.

^14dAll thy lovers have forgotten thee;

They seek thee not;

For I have wounded thee with the wound of ^ean enemy, with the chastisement of ^fa cruel one,

^ffFor the multitude of thine iniquity;

Because thy sins ^gwere increased.

¹⁵Why criest thou for thine affliction?

^hThy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity:

Because thy sins ^gwere increased, I have done these things unto thee.

¹⁶ⁱTherefore all ^kthey that devour thee ^lshall be devoured;

And all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;

And ^mthey that spoil thee shall be ⁿa spoil,

And all that prey upon thee will I give ⁿfor a prey.

¹⁷For ^oI will restore health unto thee,

And ^pI will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord;

Because they called thee ^qan Outcast, saying,

This is Zion, ^rwhom no man seeketh after.

¹⁸Thus saith the Lord;

Behold, ^sI will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents,

And ^thave mercy on his dwellingplaces; and

The city shall be builded upon her own ^||uheap,

And the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

¹⁹And out of them shall proceed ^vthanksgiving and the voice of ^wthem that make merry:

And ^wI will multiply them, and they shall not be few;

I will also ^xyglorify them, and ^ythey shall not be small.

²⁰Their children also shall be ^zas aforetime,

And their congregation shall be established before me,

And I will punish all that oppress them.

²¹And ^atheir nobles shall be of themselves,

And ^atheir governor shall proceed from the midst of them;

And I will ^bcause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me:

For ^cwho is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the Lord.

²²And ^dye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

^23eBehold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury,

A ^†continuing whirlwind:

^eIt shall ^||fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

^24fThe fierce ^ganger of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it,

^gAnd until he have performed the intents of his heart:

^ghIn the latter days ye shall consider it.

31^aAt the same time, saith the Lord,

^bWill I be the God of all the families of Israel,

And they shall be my people.

²Thus saith the Lord,

The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness;

Even Israel, ^cwhen I went to cause him to rest.

³The Lord hath appeared ^†of old unto me, saying,

Yea, ^dI have loved thee with ^ean everlasting love:

Therefore ^||with lovingkindness ^fhave I drawn thee.

⁴Again ^gI will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel:

Thou shalt again ^hbe adorned with thy ^||tabrets,

And shalt go forth in ⁱthe dances of ^jthem that make merry.

^5kThou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of ^lSamaria:

The planters shall plant, and shall ^†eat them as common things.

⁶For there shall be a day,

That the watchmen upon ^mthe mount Ephraim shall cry,

ⁿArise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God.

⁷For thus saith the Lord;

^oSing with gladness for Jacob,

And ^oshout among ^pthe chief of the nations:

Publish ye, praise ye, and say,

O Lord, ^qsave thy people, the remnant of Israel.

⁸Behold, I will bring them ^rfrom the north country,

And ^sgather them ^tfrom the coasts of the earth,

And with them ^uthe blind and the lame,

The woman with child and her that travaileth with child together:

A great company shall return thither.

⁹They shall come ^vwith weeping,

And with ^||wsupplications will I lead them:

I will cause them to walk ^xby the rivers of waters

^yIn a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble:

For ^zI am a father to Israel,

And ^zzEphraim is ^amy firstborn.

¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations,

And declare it in the isles afar off, and say,

He that scattered Israel ^bwill gather him,

And keep him, ^cas a shepherd doth his flock.

¹¹For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob,

And ^dransomed him ^efrom the hand of him that was stronger than he.

¹²Therefore they shall come and sing ^fin the height of Zion,

And ^gshall flow together ^hto the goodness of the Lord,

^ijFor wheat, and ^ijkfor wine, and ⁱfor oil,

And for the young of the flock and of the herd:

And their soul ^lshall be as a watered garden;

And ^mthey shall not sorrow any more at all.

¹³Then shall the virgin rejoice ⁿin the dance,

Both young men and old together:

For I will turn their mourning into joy,

And will comfort them, and ^omake them rejoice from their sorrow.

¹⁴And I will ^psatiate the soul of the priests with fatness,

And my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord;

^qA voice was heard in ^rRamah,

Lamentation, and ^sbitter weeping;

Rahel weeping for her children

Refused to be comforted for her children, because ^tthey were not.

¹⁶Thus saith the Lord;

Refrain thy voice from weeping,

And thine eyes from tears:

For thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord;

And ^uthey shall come again from the land of the enemy.

¹⁷And ^vthere is hope in thine end, saith the Lord,

That ^wthy children shall come again to their own border.

¹⁸I have surely heard ^zzEphraim bemoaning himself thus;

Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised,

As a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke:

^xTurn thou me, and I shall be turned;

For thou art the Lord my God.

¹⁹Surely ^yafter that I was turned, I repented;

And after that I was instructed, I ^zsmote upon my thigh:

I was ashamed, yea, even confounded,

Because I did bear the reproach ^aof my youth.

²⁰Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a ^bpleasant child?

For since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still:

Therefore ^cmy bowels ^†are troubled for him;

I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

²¹Set thee up ^dwaymarks, make thee high heaps:

^eSet thine heart toward the highway,

^fEven the way which thou wentest:

Turn again, O virgin of Israel,

Turn again to these thy cities.

²²How long wilt thou ^ggo about, O thou ^hbacksliding daughter?

For the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth,

A woman shall compass ⁱa man.

²³Thus 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,

^kWhen I shall bring again their captivity;

^lThe Lord bless thee, ^mO habitation of justice, and ⁿmountain of holiness.

²⁴And there shall dwell in Judah itself,

And ^oin all the cities thereof together,

Husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.

²⁵For I have ^psatiated the ^qweary soul,

And I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

²⁶Upon this I awaked, and beheld;

And my sleep was sweet unto me.

²⁷Behold, ^rthe days come, saith the Lord,

That ^sI will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah

With ^tthe seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

²⁸And it shall come to pass, that ^ttlike as ^uI have watched over them,

^vTo pluck up, and ^vto break down, ^vand to throw down,

^vAnd to destroy, and to afflict;

^ttSo will I watch over them, to ^vwbuild, and to plant, saith the Lord.

^29xIn those days they shall say no more,

The fathers have eaten a sour grape,

And the children’s teeth ^yare set on edge.

^30zBut every one shall die for his own iniquity:

Every man that eateth the sour grape,

His teeth shall be set on edge.

^31aBehold, ^rthe days come, saith the Lord,

That I will make ^ba new covenant

With the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

³²Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers

In the day that ^cI took them by the hand

To bring them out of the land of Egypt;

Which my covenant they brake,

^||Although ^dI was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

^33eBut this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;

After those days, saith the Lord,

^efI will put my law in their inward parts,

And write it in their hearts;

And ^gwill be their God,

And they shall be my people.

³⁴And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying,

Know the Lord:

For ^hthey shall all know me,

ⁱFrom the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord:

For I ^klwill forgive their iniquity,

^kAnd ^mI will remember their sin no more.

³⁵Thus saith the Lord, ⁿwhich giveth the sun for a light by day,

And ^othe ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,

^pWhich ^qdivideth the sea when the waves thereof roar;

^rThe Lord of hosts is his name:

^36sIf those ^oordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord,

Then the seed of Israel also shall cease

^tFrom being a nation before me for ever.

³⁷Thus saith the Lord;

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