Jeremiah 31
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At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel,
and they shall be my people.
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Thus saith the LORD,
The people which were left of the sword found grace in the
wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to
rest.
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The LORD hath
appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with
an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn
thee.
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Again I will build thee, and thou shalt
be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy
tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make
merry.
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Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the
mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
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For there shall be a day, that the
watchmen upon the mount E'phra-im shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go
up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
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For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among
the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of
Israel.
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Behold, I will bring them from the north
country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that
travaileth with child together: a great company shall return
thither.
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They shall come with weeping, and with
supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the
rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble:
for I am a father to Israel, and E'phra-im is my
firstborn.
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Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles
afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and
keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
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For the LORD hath
redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that
was stronger than he.
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Therefore they shall come and sing in the
height of Zion, and shall flow together to 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 soul shall be
as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at
all.
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Then shall the virgin rejoice in the
dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their
mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from
their sorrow.
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And I will satiate the soul of the
priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my
goodness, saith the LORD.
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Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children Gen.
35.16-19 refused to be comforted for her children,
because they were not. Mt. 2.18
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Thus saith the LORD;
Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy
work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and
they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
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And there is hope in thine end, saith the
LORD, that thy children shall come again to
their own border.
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I have surely heard E'phra-im bemoaning
himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as
a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall
be turned; for thou art the LORD my
God.
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Surely after that I was turned, I
repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the
reproach of my youth.
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Is E'phra-im my dear son? is
he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do
earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for
him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
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Set thee up waymarks, make thee high
heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn
again to these thy cities.
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How long wilt thou go about, O thou
backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created
a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, As yet they shall
use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when
I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of
holiness.
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And there shall dwell in Judah itself,
and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
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For I have satiated the weary soul, and I
have replenished every sorrowful soul.
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Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my
sleep was sweet unto me.
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The New
Covenant |
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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the
house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of
beast.
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And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down,
and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch
over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
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In those days they shall say no more, The
fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on
edge. Ezek. 18.2
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But every one shall die for his own
iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be
set on edge.
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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant Mt. 26.28 · Mk. 14.24 · Lk. 22.20 · 1 Cor. 11.25 · 2 Cor. 3.6 with the house of Israel, and with the house of
Judah:
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not according to the covenant that I made
with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand
to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they
brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith the LORD:
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but this shall be the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith
the LORD, I will put my law in their inward
parts, and write it in their hearts; Heb. 10.16 and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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And they shall teach no more every man
his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of
them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD:
for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no
more. Heb. 10.17 Heb. 8.8-12
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Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light
by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The
LORD of hosts is his name:
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If those ordinances depart from before
me, saith the LORD, then the seed of
Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for
ever.
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Thus saith the LORD;
If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth
searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel
for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Han'aneel unto the gate of the
corner.
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And the measuring line shall yet go forth
over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to
Go'ath.
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And the whole valley of the dead bodies,
and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto
the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy
unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor
thrown down any more for ever.
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