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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 31
At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all
the families of and they shall be my people.
Thus saith the Lord: The people were left and escaped
from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall
to his rest.
The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved
thee with everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee,
taking pity on thee.
And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built,
0 virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with
thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them
that make merry.
Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria:
the planters shall plant, and they shall not gather
the vintage before the time.
For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount
Ephraim, shall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion
to the Lord our God.
For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in the joy of Jacob,
and neigh before the head of the Gentiles: shout ye,
and sing, and say: Save, O Lord, thy people, the remnant
of Israel.
Behold I will bring them from the north country, and
will gather them from the ends of the earth: and among
them shall be the blind, and the lame, the woman with
child, and she that is bringing forth, together, a great
company of them returning hither.
They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them
back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents
of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble
in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my
firstborn.
Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare
it in the islands that are afar off, and say: He that
scattered Israel will gather him: and he will keep him
as the shepherd doth his flock.
For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and delivered him
out of the hand of one that was mightier than he.
And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount
Sion: and they shall flow together to the good things
of the Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the
increase of cattle and herds, and their soul shall be
as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more.
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young
men and old men together: and I will turn their mourning
into joy, and will comfort them, and make them joyful
after their sorrow.
And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness:
and my people shall be filled with my good things, saith
the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation,
of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her
children, and refusing to be comforted for them, because
they are not.
Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease from weeping,
and thy eyes from tears: for there is a reward for thy
work, saith the Lord: and they shall return out of the
land of the enemy.
And here is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and
the children shall return to their own borders.
Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity:
thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young
bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I
shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.
For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and
after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I
am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the
reproach of my youth.
Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he
is a tender child: for since I spoke of him, I will
still remember him. Therefore are my bowels troubled
for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.
Set thee up a watchtower, make to thee bitterness: direct
thy heart into the right way, wherein thou hast walked:
return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities.
How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O
wandering daughter? for the Lord hath created a new
thing upon the earth: A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As
yet shall they say this word in the land of Juda, and
in the cities thereof, when I shall bring back their
captivity: The Lord bless thee, the beauty of justice,
the holy mountain.
And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together:
the husbandmen and they that drive the docks.
For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled
every hungry soul.
Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and
I saw, and my sleep was sweet to me.
Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow
the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed
of men, and with the seed of beasts.
And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to
throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict:
so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant
them, saith the Lord.
In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have
eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are
set on edge.
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every
man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be
set on edge.
Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will
make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with
the house of Juda:
Not according to the covenant which I made with their
fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to
bring them out of the land of Egypt: the covenant which
they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith
the Lord.
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with
the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord:
I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write
it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour,
and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for
all shall know me from the least of them even to the
greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity,
and I will remember their sin no more.
Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light
of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars,
for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea,
and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his
name.
If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the
Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as
not to be a nation before me for ever.
Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
I also will cast away all the seed of Israel, for all
that they have done, saith the Lord.
Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the city
shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hanameel
even to the gate of the corner.
And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight
upon the hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha,
And the whole valley of dead bodies and of ashes, and
all the country of death, even to the torrent Cedron,
and the corner of the horse gate towards the east, the
Holy of the Lord: it shall not be plucked up, and it
shall not be destroyed any more for ever. |
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