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<t><p class="indent1">Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you <i>and</i> continued My faithfulness to you. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Again I will build you and you will be rebuilt, <t><p class="indent1">O Virgin Israel! <t><p class="indent1">You will again be adorned with your tambourines <i>and</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>timbrels <t><p class="indent1">And go out to the dances of those who celebrate. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Again you will plant vineyards <t><p class="indent1">On the mountains of Samaria; <t><p class="indent1">The planters will plant <t><p class="indent1">And enjoy the [abundant] fruit [in peace]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“For there will be a day when the watchmen <t><p class="indent1">On the hills of Ephraim cry out, <t><p class="indent1">‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion, <t><p class="indent1">To the LORD our God.’” <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For thus says the LORD, <p class="indent1stline">“Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, <t><p class="indent1">And shout for the first <i>and</i> foremost of the nations [the chosen people, Israel]; <t><p class="indent1">Proclaim, give praise and say, <t><p class="indent1">‘O LORD save Your people, <t><p class="indent1">The remnant of Israel!’ <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Behold, I am bringing them from the north country, <t><p class="indent1">And I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth, <t><p class="indent1">Among them [will be] the blind and the lame, <t><p class="indent1">The woman with child and she who labors in childbirth, together; <t><p class="indent1">A great company, they will return here [to Jerusalem]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“They will come with weeping [in repentance and for joy], <t><p class="indent1">And by [their] prayer [for the future] I will lead them; <t><p class="indent1">I will make them walk by streams of waters, <t><p class="indent1">On a straight path in which they will not stumble, <t><p class="indent1">For I am a Father to Israel, <t><p class="indent1">And Ephraim (Israel) is My firstborn.” <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, <t><p class="indent1">And declare it in the isles <i>and</i> coastlands far away, <t><p class="indent1">And say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him <t><p class="indent1">And will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the LORD has ransomed Jacob <t><p class="indent1">And has redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“They will come and sing aloud <i>and</i> shout for joy on the height of Zion, <t><p class="indent1">And will be radiant [with joy] over the goodness of the LORD-- <t><p class="indent1">For the grain, for the new wine, for the oil, <t><p class="indent1">And for the young of the flock and the herd. <t><p class="indent1">And their life will be like a watered garden, <t><p class="indent1">And they shall never sorrow <i>or</i> languish again. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, <t><p class="indent1">And the young men and old, together, <t><p class="indent1">For I will turn their mourning into joy <t><p class="indent1">And will comfort them and make them rejoice after their sorrow. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“I will fully satisfy the soul of the priests with abundance, <t><p class="indent1">And My people will be satisfied with My goodness,” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD, <p class="indent1stline">“A <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>voice is heard in Ramah, <t><p class="indent1">Lamentation (songs of mourning) and bitter weeping. <t><p class="indent1">Rachel (Israel) is weeping for her children; <t><p class="indent1">She refuses to be comforted for her children, <t><p class="indent1">Because they are gone.” <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD, <p class="indent1stline">“Restrain your voice from weeping <t><p class="indent1">And your eyes from tears, <t><p class="indent1">For your work will be rewarded,” says the LORD; <t><p class="indent1">“And your children will return from the enemy’s land. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“There is [confident] hope for your future,” says the LORD; <t><p class="indent1">“Your children will come back to their own country. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“I have surely heard Ephraim (Israel) moaning <i>and</i> grieving, <t><p class="indent1">‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, <t><p class="indent1">Like a bull unaccustomed to the yoke <i>or</i> an untrained calf; <t><p class="indent1">Bring me back that I may be restored, <t><p class="indent1">For You are the LORD my God. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>‘After I turned away [from You], I repented; <t><p class="indent1">After I was instructed, I struck my thigh [in remorse]; <t><p class="indent1">I was ashamed and even humiliated <t><p class="indent1">Because I carried the disgrace of my youth [as a nation].’ <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Is Ephraim My dear son? <t><p class="indent1">Is he a darling <i>and</i> beloved child? <t><p class="indent1">For as often as I have spoken against him, <t><p class="indent1">I certainly still remember him. <t><p class="indent1">Therefore My affection is renewed <i>and</i> My heart longs for him; <t><p class="indent1">I will surely have mercy on him,” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Place for yourself road signs [toward Canaan], <t><p class="indent1">Make for yourself guideposts; <t><p class="indent1">Turn your thought <i>and</i> attention to the highway, <t><p class="indent1">To the way by which you went [into exile]. <t><p class="indent1">Retrace your steps, O virgin of Israel, <t><p class="indent1">Return to these your cities. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“How long will you hesitate [to return], <t><p class="indent1">O you faithless <i>and</i> renegade daughter? <t><p class="indent1">For the LORD has created a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>new thing in the land [of Israel]: <p class="indent1stline">A woman will encompass (tenderly love) a man.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Once more they will speak these words in the land of Judah (the Southern Kingdom) and in her cities when I restore their fortunes <i>and</i> release them from exile, <t><p class="indent1">‘The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice <i>and</i> righteousness, <t><p class="indent1">O holy mountain!’ <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And [the people of] Judah and all its cities will live there together--the farmer and they who wander about with flocks. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For I [fully] satisfy the weary soul, and I replenish every languishing <i>and</i> sorrowful person.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>At this I (Jeremiah) awoke and looked, and my [trancelike] sleep was sweet [in the assurance it gave] to me. <p class="hdg">A New Covenant</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“Behold (listen carefully), the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>It will be that as I have watched over them to uproot and to break down, to overthrow, destroy, and afflict with disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant [with good],” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“In those days they will not say again, <t><p class="indent1">‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, <t><p class="indent1">And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But everyone will die [only] for his own wickedness; every man who eats sour grapes--his [own] teeth shall be set on edge. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>house of Israel (the Northern Kingdom) and with the house of Judah (the Southern Kingdom), <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD, “I will put My law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And each man will no longer teach his neighbor and his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me [through personal experience], from the least of them to the greatest,” says the LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness, and I will no longer remember their sin.” <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD, <t><p class="indent1">Who gives the sun for light by day <t><p class="indent1">And the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for light by night, <t><p class="indent1">Who stirs up the sea’s roaring billows <i>or</i> stills the waves when they roar; <t><p class="indent1">The LORD of hosts is His name: <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>“If this fixed order departs <t><p class="indent1">From before Me,” says the LORD, <p class="indent1stline">“Then the descendants of Israel also will cease <t><p class="indent1">From being a nation before Me forever.” <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD, <p class="indent1stline">“If the heavens above can be measured <t><p class="indent1">And the foundations of the earth searched out below, <t><p class="indent1">Then I will also cast off <i>and</i> abandon all the descendants of Israel <t><p class="indent1">For all that they have done,” says the LORD. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>“Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when the city [of Jerusalem] will be rebuilt for the LORD from the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>The measuring line will go out farther straight ahead to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[g]</a></span>Goah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And the whole valley (Hinnom) of the dead bodies and [the hill] of the ashes [long dumped there from the temple sacrifices], and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD. It (the city) will not be uprooted or overthrown anymore to the end of the age.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Also referred to as Samaria, Ephraim, Jacob, and Rachel in this chapter.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Small one-headed drums.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> The mourning at Ramah is associated with the cry of the mothers of the boy babies and toddlers of Bethlehem who would be killed by Herod the Great during his attempt to destroy young Jesus (Matt 2:17, 18). Rachel, Jacob’s favorite wife, was the mother of Joseph (Gen 35:24). The tribes descended from Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, were the most powerful in the Northern Kingdom.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> This passage probably personifies Israel as an erring but deeply penitent wife, who will devote herself to winning back and being worthy of the love of her divine husband and Lord, who had rejected her.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> The kingdom was united under David and his successor, Solomon, but split after Solomon’s son, Rehoboam became king.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[f]</span> <span class="fnverse">38</span> Many times after the days of the Old Testament, Jerusalem was destroyed. Travelers in later centuries reported it to be an almost deserted city--its buildings were ruins filled with rubble, its inhabitants were few. Yet not only did God’s word declare that it would be rebuilt, but also drew a detailed word map of the outline the city would follow--from a well-known tower to the gate at a certain corner, then on over a particular hill, coming now outside the walls of the original city and taking in a large area marked by familiar landmarks. Eight recognizable details are given here, and Zechariah adds another (14:10). Also, the city’s expansion was to be toward the northwest. Twenty-five hundred years later, in 1935, the prophecy had been fulfilled, as if indeed with God’s “measuring line” (v 39). 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