Jeremiah 31
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The Exiles Return
1At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people. # Ge 17:7–8; Jer 30:22
2Thus says the Lord:
The people who survived the sword
found grace in the wilderness,
when I went to give Israel rest. # Nu 10:33; Dt 1:33
3The Lord has appeared to him from afar, saying:
Indeed, I have loved you with an everlasting love; # Mal 1:2
therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you. # Hos 11:4
4Again I will build you # Jer 33:7
and you will be built, O virgin of Israel.
You will again be adorned with your tambourines
and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry. # Jer 31:13
5You will yet plant vines
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters will plant
and will enjoy them. # Dt 28:30; Am 9:14
6For there will be a day when the watchmen
on the hills of Ephraim will proclaim,
“Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
to the Lord our God.” # Jer 50:4–5
7For thus says the Lord:
Sing with gladness for Jacob,
and shout among the chief of the nations;
proclaim, praise, and say,
“O Lord, save Your people, # Ps 14:7; 28:9
the remnant of Israel.”
8Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
and gather them from the remote parts of the earth, # Jer 23:8
and with them the blind and the lame, # Isa 42:16
the woman with child and her who is in labor with child, together;
a great company will return here.
9They will come with weeping,
and with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters,
in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. # Isa 63:13
For I am a Father to Israel, # Jer 3:4
and Ephraim is My firstborn. # Ex 4:22
10Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far off, # Isa 66:19 and say,
“He who scattered Israel will gather him
and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.” # Isa 40:11; Eze 34:12
11For the Lord has redeemed Jacob # Isa 44:23; 48:20
and ransomed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.
12Therefore they will come and sing in the height of Zion,
and will be joyful over 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 souls will be as a watered garden. # Isa 58:11
And they will not sorrow any more at all. # Isa 35:10; 65:19
13Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance,
both young men and old together;
for I will turn their mourning into joy, # Ps 30:11; Isa 51:11
and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, # Jer 31:25
and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness,
says the Lord.
15Thus says the Lord:
A voice is heard in Ramah, # Jos 18:25
lamentation and bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children,
refusing to be comforted for her children, # Ge 37:35
because they are no more.
16Thus says the Lord:
Keep your voice from weeping
and your eyes from tears;
for your work shall be rewarded, # Ru 2:12
says the Lord,
and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. # Jer 30:3
17There is hope for your future,
says the Lord,
that your children will come back to their own border.
18I have surely heard Ephraim pleading:
“You have chastised me, # Job 5:17
and I was chastised, as an untrained calf;
turn me back and I will be turned, # Ps 80:3
for you are the Lord my God.
19Surely after I turned back,
I repented;
and after I was instructed,
I struck myself on my thigh; # Eze 21:12
I was ashamed and even humiliated # Eze 36:31
because I bore the reproach of my youth.” # Jer 3:25
20Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a pleasant child?
For since I spoke against him,
I still remember him;
therefore My heart longs for him.
I will surely have mercy on him, # Isa 55:7; 63:15
says the Lord.
21Set up road marks,
place guideposts.
Set your heart toward the highway, # Jer 50:5
even the way by which you went.
Turn back, O virgin of Israel,
turn back to these your cities.
22How long will you go about, # Jer 2:23
O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth:
A woman shall obtain a man.
23Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Once again they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities when I restore their fortunes: “May the Lord bless you, O habitation of righteousness and mountain of holiness!” # Isa 1:26; Jer 50:7; Zec 8:3 24And Judah and all its cities will dwell there, # Eze 36:10; Zec 8:4–8 the farmer and those who go out with the flocks. 25For I satiate the weary souls and I replenish every languishing soul. # Jer 31:14; Jn 4:14
26Upon this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was sweet to me.
27Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will sow # Eze 36:9; Hos 2:23 the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast. 28It shall come to pass that as I have watched over them # Jer 44:27 to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them, to build, and to plant, # Jer 1:10 says the Lord. 29In those days they will say no more:
“The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” # La 5:7; Eze 18:2–3
30But everyone will die for his own iniquity. # Isa 3:11; Eze 18:4 Every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth will be set on edge.
A New Covenant
31Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant # Jer 32:40; Lk 22:20
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32It will not be according to the covenant
that I made with their fathers # Dt 5:3
in the day that I took them by the hand # Dt 1:31
to bring them out of the land of Egypt,
because they broke My covenant,
although I was a husband to them,
says the Lord.
33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My law within them
and write it in their hearts; # 2Co 3:3; Heb 10:16
and I will be their God,
and they shall be My people.
34They shall teach no more every man his neighbor
and every man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,”
for they all shall know Me, # Isa 54:13
from the least of them to the greatest of them,
says the Lord,
for I will forgive their iniquity, # Jer 33:8
and I will remember their sin no more.
35Thus 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 the waves roar,
the Lord of Hosts is His name: # Isa 51:15; Jer 10:16
36If those ordinances depart from before Me,
says the Lord,
then the seed of Israel also will cease
from being a nation before Me forever. # Isa 54:9–10; Jer 33:20–26
37Thus says the Lord:
If heaven above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, # Jer 33:22
I will also cast off all the seed of Israel # Jer 33:24–26
for all that they have done,
says the Lord.
38Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when the city will be built to the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. # 2Ki 14:13; Zec 14:10 39The measuring line # Zec 2:1–2 shall stretch out straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. 40The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the Kidron Valley, # 2Sa 15:23 to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be holy to the Lord. # Joel 3:17 It will not be plucked up nor thrown down any more forever.
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