Jeremiah 31
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God’s Relationship with His People
1“At that time” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “I will be the God of all the families of Israel,#Jr 30:22 and they will be my people.”
2This is what the Lord says:
The people who survived the sword
found favor in the wilderness.#Ex 33:12–17
When Israel went to find rest,#Jos 23:1; 2Sm 7:11; 1Kg 8:56; 1Ch 23:25
3the Lord appeared to him#31:3 LXX; MT reads me from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love;#Is 54:8
therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you.#Ps 36:10; 109:12
4Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt,
Virgin Israel.#Jr 18:13; 31:21; Am 5:2
You will take up your tambourines again#Ex 15:20; Jdg 11:34; 1Sm 18:6
and go out in joyful dancing.
5You will plant vineyards again#Am 5:11
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters will plant and will enjoy the fruit.#Lv 19:23,25; Dt 20:6; 28:30
6For there will be a day when watchmen will call out
in the hill country of Ephraim,
“Come, let’s go up to Zion,#Is 2:3
to the Lord our God!”
God’s People Brought Home
7For this is what the Lord says:
Sing with joy for Jacob;
shout for the foremost of the nations!
Proclaim, praise, and say,
“Lord, save your people,#Ps 28:9; Hab 3:13; Zch 8:7
the remnant of Israel!” #Is 10:20; Jr 6:9; Ezk 11:13; Mc 2:12; Zph 3:13
8Watch! I am going to bring them from the northern land.
I will gather them from remote regions of the earth#Neh 1:9; Is 43:6; Jr 32:37; Ezk 34:13; 37:21; 39:27; Zch 10:8,10 —
the blind and the lame will be with them,#Lv 21:18; Mt 11:5; Lk 14:13
along with those who are pregnant and those about to give birth.
They will return here as a great assembly!#Ezk 38:15
9They will come weeping,
but I will bring them back with consolation.#31:9 LXX; MT reads supplications#Jb 15:11
I will lead them to wadis filled with water,
by a smooth way where they will not stumble,#Pr 4:12; Is 63:13; Ezk 36:15
for I am Israel’s Father,
and Ephraim is my firstborn.#Ex 4:22–23; Dt 32:19; Is 63:16; 64:8; Hs 11:1; Mal 2:10; Jn 8:41
10Nations, hear the word of the Lord,
and tell it among the far off coasts and islands!#Is 40:15; Jr 25:22; 47:4
Say, “The one who scattered Israel will gather him.#Dt 30:3; Is 11:12; Ezk 11:17; 20:34,41; 28:25; Mc 4:6; Zph 3:19
He will watch over him as a shepherd guards his flock,
11for the Lord has ransomed Jacob
and redeemed him from the power of one stronger than he.”#Is 41:14; 43:1; 44:23; 48:20; 60:16
12They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion;#Ps 71:23; 92:4; Is 49:13; Zch 2:10
they will be radiant with joy#Ps 34:5; Is 60:5
because of the Lord’s goodness,
because of the grain, the new wine, the fresh oil,#Nm 18:12; Dt 7:13; Hg 1:11
and because of the young of the flocks and herds.
Their life will be like an irrigated garden,
and they will no longer grow weak from hunger.
13Then the young women will rejoice with dancing,
while young and old men rejoice together.
I will turn their mourning into joy,#Ps 105:43; Is 35:10; 51:3,11; Lm 5:15
give them consolation,
and bring happiness out of grief.
14I will refresh the priests with an abundance,#31:14 Lit fatness#Dt 31:20; Ps 36:8; Is 30:23
and my people will be satisfied with my goodness.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Lament Turned to Joy
15This is what the Lord says:
A voice was heard in Ramah,#Jos 18:25; Jdg 4:5; 1Sm 1:19; 19:18; Jr 40:1
a lament with bitter weeping —
Rachel weeping for her children,
refusing to be comforted for her children
because they are no more.#Mt 2:18
16This is what the Lord says:
Keep your voice from weeping
and your eyes from tears,
for the reward for your work will come —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
and your children will return from the enemy’s land.
17There is hope for your future#Jr 5:31; 23:20; 29:11 —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
and your children will return to their own territory.
18I have surely heard Ephraim moaning,
“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined
like an untrained calf.#Hs 4:16; 10:11
Take me back, so that I can return,
for you, Lord, are my God.#Ps 40:5; Jr 3:22
19After my return, I felt regret;
After I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief.#Ezk 21:12
I was ashamed and humiliated#Ps 35:4; Ezr 9:6; Is 41:11; Jr 8:12; 14:3; 22:22; Ezk 36:32
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”
20Isn’t Ephraim a precious son to me,
a delightful child?#Is 5:7; Hs 11:1
Whenever I speak against him,
I certainly still think about him.
Therefore, my inner being yearns for him;
I will truly have compassion on him.#Jr 12:15; 30:18; 33:26; 42:12; Hs 11:4,8–9
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Repentance and Restoration
21Set up road markers#2Kg 23:17; Ezk 39:15 for yourself;
establish signposts!
Keep the highway in mind,
the way you have traveled.
Return, Virgin Israel!
Return to these cities of yours.
22How long will you turn here and there,
faithless daughter?#Jr 3:14,22; 49:4
For the Lord creates something new in the land#31:22 Or new on earth —
a female#31:22 Or woman will shelter#31:22 Or female surrounds, or female courts; Hb obscure a man.
23This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore their fortunes,#31:23 Or I end their captivity they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the Lord bless you, righteous settlement,#Jb 8:6; Jr 50:7 holy mountain.’#Ps 2:6; 3:4; 48:1; 99:9 24Judah and all its cities will live in it together — also farmers and those who move#31:24 Tg, Vg, Aq, Sym; MT reads and they will move with the flocks — 25for I satisfy the thirsty person and feed all those who are weak.”#Ps 107:9; Is 55:1; Jn 4:14; 6:35; 7:35; Rv 21:6; 22:17
26At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.
27“Look, the days are coming” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “when I will sow the house of Israel#Ezk 36:9,11; Hs 2:23 and the house of Judah with the seed of people and the seed of animals. 28Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear them down, to demolish and to destroy, and to cause disaster,#Jr 21:10; 39:16; 44:27; Am 9:4 so will I watch over them to build and to plant them”#Jr 1:10; 18:7–10; 44:27 — this is the Lord’s declaration. 29“In those days, it will never again be said,
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’#Ezk 18:2
30Rather, each will die for his own iniquity.#Dt 24:6; Ezk 18:20 Anyone who eats sour grapes — his own teeth will be set on edge.
The New Covenant
31“Look, the days are coming”#Heb 8:8–12; 10:16–17 — this is the Lord’s declaration — “when I will make a new covenant#Ezk 37:26; Hs 2:18; Lk 22:20; 1Co 11:25; 2Co 3:6; Heb 9:15; 12:24 with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant that they broke even though I am their master”#31:32 Or husband#Is 54:4; 62:4; Mal 2:11 — the Lord’s declaration. 33“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days” — the Lord’s declaration. “I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’#Jdg 2:10; 1Sm 3:7; Hs 2:20 for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them”#Est 1:20; Jr 6:13; 8:10; 42:1,8; 44:12 — this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their iniquity#Nm 14:19; Ps 103:3; Jr 36:3 and never again remember their sin.
35“This is what the Lord says:
The one who gives the sun for light by day,
the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar#Ps 46:3; Is 51:15; Jr 5:22 —
the Lord of Armies is his name:
36If this fixed order departs from before me —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
only then will Israel’s descendants cease
to be a nation before me forever.#Jr 33:18; 35:19
37“This is what the Lord says:
Only if the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below explored,
will I reject all of Israel’s descendants
because of all they have done —
this is the Lord’s declaration.
38“Look, the days are coming” — the Lord’s declaration — “when the city#31:38 = Jerusalem from the Tower of Hananel#Neh 3:1; 12:39 to the Corner Gate#2Kg 14:13; 2Ch 26:9; Zch 14:10 will be rebuilt for the Lord. 39A measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb#Zch 2:1 and then turn toward Goah. 40The whole valley — the corpses, the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley#2Kg 23:4 to the corner of the Horse Gate#Neh 3:28 to the east — will be holy to the Lord. It will never be uprooted or demolished again.”
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Jeremiah 31
31
The Exiles Return
1At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people. # Ge 17:7–8; Jer 30:22
2Thus says the Lord:
The people who survived the sword
found grace in the wilderness,
when I went to give Israel rest. # Nu 10:33; Dt 1:33
3The Lord has appeared to him from afar, saying:
Indeed, I have loved you with an everlasting love; # Mal 1:2
therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you. # Hos 11:4
4Again I will build you # Jer 33:7
and you will be built, O virgin of Israel.
You will again be adorned with your tambourines
and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry. # Jer 31:13
5You will yet plant vines
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters will plant
and will enjoy them. # Dt 28:30; Am 9:14
6For there will be a day when the watchmen
on the hills of Ephraim will proclaim,
“Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
to the Lord our God.” # Jer 50:4–5
7For thus says the Lord:
Sing with gladness for Jacob,
and shout among the chief of the nations;
proclaim, praise, and say,
“O Lord, save Your people, # Ps 14:7; 28:9
the remnant of Israel.”
8Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
and gather them from the remote parts of the earth, # Jer 23:8
and with them the blind and the lame, # Isa 42:16
the woman with child and her who is in labor with child, together;
a great company will return here.
9They will come with weeping,
and with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters,
in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. # Isa 63:13
For I am a Father to Israel, # Jer 3:4
and Ephraim is My firstborn. # Ex 4:22
10Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far off, # Isa 66:19 and say,
“He who scattered Israel will gather him
and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.” # Isa 40:11; Eze 34:12
11For the Lord has redeemed Jacob # Isa 44:23; 48:20
and ransomed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.
12Therefore they will come and sing in the height of Zion,
and will be joyful over 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 souls will be as a watered garden. # Isa 58:11
And they will not sorrow any more at all. # Isa 35:10; 65:19
13Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance,
both young men and old together;
for I will turn their mourning into joy, # Ps 30:11; Isa 51:11
and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, # Jer 31:25
and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness,
says the Lord.
15Thus says the Lord:
A voice is heard in Ramah, # Jos 18:25
lamentation and bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children,
refusing to be comforted for her children, # Ge 37:35
because they are no more.
16Thus says the Lord:
Keep your voice from weeping
and your eyes from tears;
for your work shall be rewarded, # Ru 2:12
says the Lord,
and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. # Jer 30:3
17There is hope for your future,
says the Lord,
that your children will come back to their own border.
18I have surely heard Ephraim pleading:
“You have chastised me, # Job 5:17
and I was chastised, as an untrained calf;
turn me back and I will be turned, # Ps 80:3
for you are the Lord my God.
19Surely after I turned back,
I repented;
and after I was instructed,
I struck myself on my thigh; # Eze 21:12
I was ashamed and even humiliated # Eze 36:31
because I bore the reproach of my youth.” # Jer 3:25
20Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a pleasant child?
For since I spoke against him,
I still remember him;
therefore My heart longs for him.
I will surely have mercy on him, # Isa 55:7; 63:15
says the Lord.
21Set up road marks,
place guideposts.
Set your heart toward the highway, # Jer 50:5
even the way by which you went.
Turn back, O virgin of Israel,
turn back to these your cities.
22How long will you go about, # Jer 2:23
O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth:
A woman shall obtain a man.
23Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Once again they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities when I restore their fortunes: “May the Lord bless you, O habitation of righteousness and mountain of holiness!” # Isa 1:26; Jer 50:7; Zec 8:3 24And Judah and all its cities will dwell there, # Eze 36:10; Zec 8:4–8 the farmer and those who go out with the flocks. 25For I satiate the weary souls and I replenish every languishing soul. # Jer 31:14; Jn 4:14
26Upon this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was sweet to me.
27Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will sow # Eze 36:9; Hos 2:23 the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast. 28It shall come to pass that as I have watched over them # Jer 44:27 to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them, to build, and to plant, # Jer 1:10 says the Lord. 29In those days they will say no more:
“The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” # La 5:7; Eze 18:2–3
30But everyone will die for his own iniquity. # Isa 3:11; Eze 18:4 Every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth will be set on edge.
A New Covenant
31Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant # Jer 32:40; Lk 22:20
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32It will not be according to the covenant
that I made with their fathers # Dt 5:3
in the day that I took them by the hand # Dt 1:31
to bring them out of the land of Egypt,
because they broke My covenant,
although I was a husband to them,
says the Lord.
33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My law within them
and write it in their hearts; # 2Co 3:3; Heb 10:16
and I will be their God,
and they shall be My people.
34They shall teach no more every man his neighbor
and every man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,”
for they all shall know Me, # Isa 54:13
from the least of them to the greatest of them,
says the Lord,
for I will forgive their iniquity, # Jer 33:8
and I will remember their sin no more.
35Thus says the Lord,
who gives the sun
for a light by day
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars
for a light by night,
who stirs up the sea
so that the waves roar,
the Lord of Hosts is His name: # Isa 51:15; Jer 10:16
36If those ordinances depart from before Me,
says the Lord,
then the seed of Israel also will cease
from being a nation before Me forever. # Isa 54:9–10; Jer 33:20–26
37Thus says the Lord:
If heaven above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, # Jer 33:22
I will also cast off all the seed of Israel # Jer 33:24–26
for all that they have done,
says the Lord.
38Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when the city will be built to the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. # 2Ki 14:13; Zec 14:10 39The measuring line # Zec 2:1–2 shall stretch out straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. 40The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the Kidron Valley, # 2Sa 15:23 to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be holy to the Lord. # Joel 3:17 It will not be plucked up nor thrown down any more forever.
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