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Israel’s Mourning Turned to Joy

31 “At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the (A)God of all the (B)families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”

2 This is what the Lord says:
“The people who survived the sword
(C)Found grace in the wilderness—
Israel, when it went to (D)find its rest.”
3 The Lord appeared to [a]him [b]long ago, saying,
“I have (E)loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore I have drawn you out with (F)kindness.
4 (G)I will build you again and you will be rebuilt,
Virgin of Israel!
You will [c]take up your (H)tambourines again,
And go out to the dances of the (I)revelers.
5 Again you will (J)plant vineyards
On the [d]hills of Samaria;
The planters will plant
And will [e]enjoy the fruit.
6 For there will be a day when watchmen
On the hills of Ephraim call out,
‘Arise, and (K)let’s go up to Zion,
To the Lord our God.’”

7 For this is what the Lord says:
“(L)Sing aloud with joy for Jacob,
And be joyful with the [f](M)chief of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘Lord, (N)save Your people,
The (O)remnant of Israel!’
8 Behold, I am (P)bringing them from the north country,
And I will (Q)gather them from the remote parts of the earth,
Among them those who are (R)blind and those who (S)limp,
The pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together;
They will return here as a great assembly.
9 (T)They will come with weeping,
And by pleading I will bring them;
I will lead them by (U)streams of waters,
On a straight path on which they will (V)not stumble;
For I am a (W)father to Israel,
And Ephraim is (X)My firstborn.”

10 Hear the word of the Lord, you nations,
And declare it in the (Y)coastlands far away,
And say, “He who scattered Israel will (Z)gather him,
And He will keep him as a (AA)shepherd keeps his flock.”
11 For the Lord has (AB)ransomed Jacob
And redeemed him from the hand of him who was (AC)stronger than he.
12 “They will (AD)come and shout for joy on the (AE)height of Zion,
And they will be (AF)radiant over the [g]bounty of the Lord—
Over the (AG)grain, the new wine, the oil,
And over the young of the (AH)flock and the herd.
And their life will be like a (AI)watered garden,
And they will (AJ)never languish again.
13 Then the virgin will rejoice in the (AK)dance,
And the young men and the old together;
For I will (AL)turn their mourning into joy
And comfort them, and give them (AM)joy for their sorrow.
14 I will refresh the soul of the priests with [h]abundance,
And My people will be (AN)satisfied with My goodness,” declares the Lord.

15 This is what the Lord says:
“(AO)A voice is heard in (AP)Ramah,
Lamenting and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
She (AQ)refuses to be comforted for her children,
Because (AR)they are no more.”

16 This is what the Lord says:

“(AS)Restrain your voice from weeping
And your eyes from tears;
For your (AT)work will be rewarded,” declares the Lord,
“And they will (AU)return from the land of the enemy.
17 There is (AV)hope for your future,” declares the Lord,
“And your children will return to their own territory.
18 I have certainly heard Ephraim (AW)grieving,
‘You have (AX)disciplined me, and I was corrected,
Like an untrained (AY)calf;
(AZ)Bring me back that I may be restored,
For You are the Lord my God.
19 For after I turned back, I (BA)repented;
And after I was instructed, I [i](BB)slapped my thigh;
I was (BC)ashamed and also humiliated
Because I bore the shame of my youth.’
20 Is (BD)Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a delightful child?
Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him,
I certainly still remember him;
Therefore My [j](BE)heart yearns for him;
I will certainly (BF)have mercy on him,” declares the Lord.

21 “Set up roadmarks for yourself,
Place guideposts for yourself;
(BG)Direct your [k]mind to the highway,
The way by which you went.
(BH)Return, O virgin of Israel,
Return to these your cities.
22 How long will you waver,
You (BI)rebellious daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
A woman will shelter a man.”

23 This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I (BJ)restore their fortunes,

‘The Lord bless you, O (BK)place of righteousness,
O (BL)holy hill!’

24 Judah and all its cities will (BM)live together in it, the farmers and those who travel with flocks. 25 (BN)For I give plenty of water to the weary ones, and [l]refresh everyone who languishes.” 26 At this I (BO)awoke and looked, and my (BP)sleep had been pleasant to me.

A New Covenant

27 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will (BQ)sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of mankind and the seed of animals. 28 And just as I have (BR)watched over them to (BS)uproot them, tear them down, ruin, destroy, and bring disaster on them, so I will watch over them to (BT)build and to plant them,” declares the Lord.

29 “In those days they will no longer say,
‘(BU)The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
[m]But it is the children’s teeth that have become blunt.’

30 But (BV)everyone will die for his own wrongdoing; each person who eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will become blunt.

31 “(BW)Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a (BX)new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the (BY)covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I (BZ)took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My (CA)covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33 “For (CB)this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “(CC)I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and (CD)I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They will (CE)not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all (CF)know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will (CG)forgive their wrongdoing, and their (CH)sin I will no longer remember.”

35 This is what the Lord says,
He who (CI)gives the sun for light by day
And the [n]fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
Who (CJ)stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
(CK)The Lord of armies is His name:
36 “(CL)If [o]this fixed order departs
From Me,” declares the Lord,
“Then the descendants of Israel also will (CM)cease
To be a nation before Me [p]forever.”
37 This is what the Lord says:
“(CN)If the heavens above can be measured
And the foundations of the earth searched out below,
Then I will also (CO)reject all the descendants of Israel
For everything that they have done,” declares the Lord.

38 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the (CP)city will be rebuilt for the Lord from the (CQ)Tower of Hananel to the (CR)Corner Gate. 39 The (CS)measuring line will go out farther straight ahead, to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah. 40 And (CT)the entire valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook (CU)Kidron to the corner of the (CV)Horse Gate toward the east, shall be (CW)holy to the Lord; it will not be uprooted or overthrown ever again.”

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:3 Lit me
  2. Jeremiah 31:3 Or from far away
  3. Jeremiah 31:4 Lit adorn yourself with
  4. Jeremiah 31:5 Or mountains
  5. Jeremiah 31:5 Lit defile
  6. Jeremiah 31:7 Lit head
  7. Jeremiah 31:12 Lit goodness
  8. Jeremiah 31:14 Lit fatness
  9. Jeremiah 31:19 I.e., in regret
  10. Jeremiah 31:20 Lit inward parts
  11. Jeremiah 31:21 Lit heart
  12. Jeremiah 31:25 Lit fill
  13. Jeremiah 31:29 I.e., the children suffer for the fathers’ sins
  14. Jeremiah 31:35 Lit statutes
  15. Jeremiah 31:36 Lit these statutes
  16. Jeremiah 31:36 Lit all the days

Cross references

  1. Jeremiah 31:1 : Jer 30:22
  2. Jeremiah 31:1 : Gen 17:7, 8; Is 41:10; Rom 11:26-28
  3. Jeremiah 31:2 : Num 14:20
  4. Jeremiah 31:2 : Ex 33:14; Num 10:33; Deut 1:33; Josh 1:13
  5. Jeremiah 31:3 : Deut 4:37; 7:8; Mal 1:2
  6. Jeremiah 31:3 : Ps 25:6
  7. Jeremiah 31:4 : Jer 24:6; 33:7
  8. Jeremiah 31:4 : Is 30:32
  9. Jeremiah 31:4 : Jer 30:19
  10. Jeremiah 31:5 : Ps 107:37; Is 65:21; Ezek 28:26; Amos 9:14
  11. Jeremiah 31:6 : Is 2:3; Jer 31:12; 50:4, 5; Mic 4:2
  12. Jeremiah 31:7 : Ps 14:7; Jer 20:13
  13. Jeremiah 31:7 : Deut 28:13; Is 61:9
  14. Jeremiah 31:7 : Ps 28:9
  15. Jeremiah 31:7 : Is 37:31; Jer 23:3
  16. Jeremiah 31:8 : Jer 3:18; 23:8
  17. Jeremiah 31:8 : Deut 30:4; Is 43:6; Ezek 34:13
  18. Jeremiah 31:8 : Is 42:16
  19. Jeremiah 31:8 : Is 40:11; Ezek 34:16; Mic 4:6
  20. Jeremiah 31:9 : Ps 126:5; Jer 50:4
  21. Jeremiah 31:9 : Is 43:20; 49:10
  22. Jeremiah 31:9 : Is 63:13
  23. Jeremiah 31:9 : Is 64:8; Jer 3:4, 19
  24. Jeremiah 31:9 : Ex 4:22
  25. Jeremiah 31:10 : Is 66:19; Jer 25:22
  26. Jeremiah 31:10 : Jer 50:19
  27. Jeremiah 31:10 : Is 40:11; Ezek 34:12
  28. Jeremiah 31:11 : Is 44:23; 48:20; Jer 15:21; 50:34
  29. Jeremiah 31:11 : Ps 142:6
  30. Jeremiah 31:12 : Jer 31:6, 7
  31. Jeremiah 31:12 : Ezek 17:23
  32. Jeremiah 31:12 : Is 2:2; Mic 4:1
  33. Jeremiah 31:12 : Hos 2:22; Joel 3:18
  34. Jeremiah 31:12 : Jer 31:24; 33:12, 13
  35. Jeremiah 31:12 : Is 58:11
  36. Jeremiah 31:12 : Is 35:10; 60:20; 65:19; John 16:22; Rev 21:4
  37. Jeremiah 31:13 : Judg 21:21; Ps 30:11; Zech 8:4, 5
  38. Jeremiah 31:13 : Is 61:3
  39. Jeremiah 31:13 : Is 51:11
  40. Jeremiah 31:14 : Jer 50:19
  41. Jeremiah 31:15 : Matt 2:18
  42. Jeremiah 31:15 : Josh 18:25; Judg 4:5; Is 10:29; Jer 40:1
  43. Jeremiah 31:15 : Gen 37:35; Ps 77:2
  44. Jeremiah 31:15 : Gen 5:24; 42:13, 36; Jer 10:20
  45. Jeremiah 31:16 : Is 25:8; 30:19
  46. Jeremiah 31:16 : Ruth 2:12; Heb 6:10
  47. Jeremiah 31:16 : Jer 30:3; Ezek 11:17
  48. Jeremiah 31:17 : Jer 29:11
  49. Jeremiah 31:18 : Jer 3:21
  50. Jeremiah 31:18 : Job 5:17; Ps 94:12
  51. Jeremiah 31:18 : Hos 4:16
  52. Jeremiah 31:18 : Ps 80:3, 7, 19; Jer 17:14; Lam 5:21; Acts 3:26
  53. Jeremiah 31:19 : Ezek 36:31; Zech 12:10
  54. Jeremiah 31:19 : Ezek 21:12; Luke 18:13
  55. Jeremiah 31:19 : Jer 3:25
  56. Jeremiah 31:20 : Hos 11:8
  57. Jeremiah 31:20 : Gen 43:30; Judg 10:16; Is 63:15; Hos 11:8
  58. Jeremiah 31:20 : Is 55:7; 57:18; Hos 14:4; Mic 7:18
  59. Jeremiah 31:21 : Jer 50:5
  60. Jeremiah 31:21 : Is 48:20; 52:11
  61. Jeremiah 31:22 : Jer 3:6; 49:4
  62. Jeremiah 31:23 : Jer 30:18; 32:44
  63. Jeremiah 31:23 : Is 1:26; Jer 50:7
  64. Jeremiah 31:23 : Ps 48:1; 87:1; Zech 8:3
  65. Jeremiah 31:24 : Jer 31:12; Ezek 36:10; Zech 8:4-8
  66. Jeremiah 31:25 : Ps 107:9; Jer 31:12, 14; Matt 5:6; John 4:14
  67. Jeremiah 31:26 : Zech 4:1
  68. Jeremiah 31:26 : Prov 3:24
  69. Jeremiah 31:27 : Ezek 36:9, 11; Hos 2:23
  70. Jeremiah 31:28 : Jer 44:27; Dan 9:14
  71. Jeremiah 31:28 : Jer 1:10; 18:7
  72. Jeremiah 31:28 : Jer 24:6
  73. Jeremiah 31:29 : Lam 5:7; Ezek 18:2
  74. Jeremiah 31:30 : Deut 24:16; Is 3:11; Ezek 18:4, 20
  75. Jeremiah 31:31 : Jer 31:31-34; Heb 8:8-12
  76. Jeremiah 31:31 : Jer 32:40; 33:14; Ezek 37:26; Luke 22:20; 1 Cor 11:25; 2 Cor 3:6; Heb 8:8-12; 10:16, 17
  77. Jeremiah 31:32 : Ex 19:5; 24:6-8; Deut 5:2, 3
  78. Jeremiah 31:32 : Deut 1:31; Is 63:12
  79. Jeremiah 31:32 : Jer 11:7, 8
  80. Jeremiah 31:33 : Jer 32:40; Heb 10:16
  81. Jeremiah 31:33 : Ps 40:8; 2 Cor 3:3
  82. Jeremiah 31:33 : Jer 24:7; 30:22; 32:38
  83. Jeremiah 31:34 : 1 Thess 4:9; 1 John 2:27
  84. Jeremiah 31:34 : Is 11:9; 54:13; Jer 24:7; Hab 2:14; John 6:45; 1 John 2:20
  85. Jeremiah 31:34 : Jer 33:8; 50:20; Mic 7:18; Rom 11:27
  86. Jeremiah 31:34 : Is 43:25; Heb 10:17
  87. Jeremiah 31:35 : Gen 1:14-18; Deut 4:19; Ps 19:1-6; 136:7-9
  88. Jeremiah 31:35 : Is 51:15
  89. Jeremiah 31:35 : Jer 10:16; 32:18; 50:34
  90. Jeremiah 31:36 : Ps 89:36, 37; 148:6; Is 54:9, 10; Jer 33:20-26
  91. Jeremiah 31:36 : Amos 9:8, 9
  92. Jeremiah 31:37 : Is 40:12; Jer 33:22
  93. Jeremiah 31:37 : Jer 33:24-26; Rom 11:2-5, 26, 27
  94. Jeremiah 31:38 : Jer 30:18; 31:4
  95. Jeremiah 31:38 : Neh 3:1; 12:39; Zech 14:10
  96. Jeremiah 31:38 : 2 Kin 14:13; 2 Chr 26:9
  97. Jeremiah 31:39 : Zech 2:1
  98. Jeremiah 31:40 : Jer 7:32; 8:2
  99. Jeremiah 31:40 : 2 Sam 15:23; 2 Kin 23:6, 12; John 18:1
  100. Jeremiah 31:40 : 2 Kin 11:16; 2 Chr 23:15; Neh 3:28
  101. Jeremiah 31:40 : Joel 3:17; Zech 14:20

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