KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 31
The restoration of Israel. The publication of it. Rachel mourning, is not comforted. Ephraim repenting is brought home again.
1At that time, a statement of Jehovah, I will be for God to all the families of Israel, and they shall be to Me for a people.
2So says Jehovah, Israel, the people, the survivors of the sword, have found grace in the wilderness, I will go to give rest to him.
3Jehovah has appeared to me from far away, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love! Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you.
4Again I will build you, and you shall be built again, O virgin of Israel. You will again put on your tambourines and go forth in the dance of those making merry.
5You shall yet plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria, the planters shall plant and shall treat them as undefiled.
6For there shall be a day when the watchmen on Ephraim's hills shall call out, Rise up and let us go up to Zion, to Jehovah our God.
7For so says Jehovah, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations. Cry out, give praise and say, O Jehovah, save Your people, the remnant of Israel.
8Behold! I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the recesses of the earth. Among them the blind one, and the lame one, the one being pregnant, and the one giving birth, together a great company, shall return here.
9They shall come with weeping, and I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by torrents of waters, in a right way; they will not stumble in it. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first-born.
10Hear the Word of Jehovah, O nations, and declare in the isles from far away, and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd feeding his flock.
11For Jehovah has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of the one stronger than he.
12And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and beam over the goodness of Jehovah, for grain, and for new wine, and for oil, and for the sons of the flock and the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not add to languish any more.
13Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance, both young men and elders together. For I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, a statement of Jehovah.
15So says Jehovah, A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing, bitter weeping: Rachel weeping over her sons; she refuses to be comforted for her sons, for they are not.
16So says Jehovah, Hold back your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears. For there will be a reward for your work, a statement of Jehovah, and they shall return from the land of the enemy.
17And there is hope for your latter time, a statement of Jehovah, that your sons will return to their own territory.
18Hearing I have heard Ephraim moaning over himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull calf not trained . Turn me back, and I shall be turned; for You are Jehovah my God.
19For after I had turned away, I repented; and after I knew, I slapped on my thigh. I was ashamed; yea, I also was shamed, because I lifted up the reproach of my youth.
20Is Ephraim My dear son? Or is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, remembering I remember him still. So My bowels are stirred for him; pitying I will have pity on him, a statement of Jehovah.
21Set up road marks for yourself; make sign posts for yourself. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way you went. Turn back, O virgin of Israel; turn back to these cities of yours.
22Until when will you turn to and fro, O faithless daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the land: a woman shall encompass a man.
23So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Again they will speak this Word in the land of Judah, and in its cities, when I turn back their captivity, saying, Jehovah bless you, O home of righteousness, O holy mountain!
24And Judah and all its cities shall live in it together, the tenant-farmers and those who travel with flocks.
25For I fully satisfy the weary soul, and I fill every soul that languishes.
26On this I awakened and looked up, and my sleep was sweet to me.
27Behold, the days come, a statement of Jehovah, even I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and the seed of beast.
28And it shall be, as I have watched over them to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to bring calamity; so I will watch over them to build and to plant, a statement of Jehovah.
29In those days they shall not any more say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.
30But every man will die in his iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be dull.
31Behold, the days come, a statement of Jehovah, that I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
32not according to the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant of Mine they broke, although I was a husband to them, a statement of Jehovah.
33But this shall be the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel: After those days, a statement of Jehovah, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to Me for a people.
34And they shall no longer each man teach his companion, and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah. For they shall all know Me, from the least of them even to the greatest of them, a statement of Jehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more.
35So says Jehovah, who gives the sun for a light by day, the laws of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.
36If these ordinances depart from before Me, a statement of Jehovah, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.
37So says Jehovah, If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be searched out, I will also reject all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, a statement of Jehovah.
38Behold, the days come, a statement of Jehovah, that the city will be built to Jehovah, from the Tower of Hananeel to the Corner Gate.
39And the measuring line shall yet go out to the hill Gareb, and shall go around to Goath.
40And the whole valley of the corpses and the ashes and all the fields to the torrent Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate east, shall be holy to Jehovah. It shall not be torn up, and not torn down any more, forever.
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