Jeremiah 31
31
The Lord Will Turn Mourning to Joy
1 # ch. 30:24 “At that time, declares the Lord, #[2 Cor. 6:18]; See ch. 30:22I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people.”
2Thus says the Lord:
“The people who survived the sword
found grace in the wilderness;
# [ch. 30:10; Ps. 95:11; Isa. 63:14] when Israel sought for rest,
3the Lord appeared to him#31:3 Septuagint; Hebrew me from far away.
#
Deut. 7:8; 10:15; Mal. 1:2; Rom. 11:28 I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore #Ps. 36:10 I have continued #Hos. 11:4my faithfulness to you.
4 # ver. 28; ch. 33:7 Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
O virgin Israel!
#
Isa. 61:10 Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines
and shall go forth in #ver. 13; Ex. 15:20; Judg. 11:34; 21:21; See 2 Sam. 6:14the dance of the merrymakers.
5 #
Isa. 65:21; Amos 9:14 Again you shall plant vineyards
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters shall plant
and shall enjoy the fruit.
6For there shall be a day when watchmen will call
in #See Josh. 24:33 the hill country of Ephraim:
#
Isa. 2:3; 27:13 ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
to the Lord our God.’”
7For thus says the Lord:
#
Isa. 12:6; 65:18 “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
and raise shouts for #Amos 6:1 the chief of the nations;
proclaim, give praise, and say,
#
Ps. 118:25
‘O Lord, save your people,
the remnant of Israel.’
8Behold, I will bring them #See ch. 3:18 from the north country
and #See ch. 23:3 gather them from #See ch. 6:22 the farthest parts of the earth,
among them #Isa. 35:5, 6the blind and the lame,
the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together;
a great company, they shall return here.
9 # ch. 50:4; [Ezra 3:13; 10:1] With weeping they shall come,
# ch. 3:21; Zech. 12:10 and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them #Isa. 35:6, 7; 49:10; [Ps. 23:2] walk by brooks of water,
#
Isa. 35:8; 43:19; 49:11 in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for #Rom. 8:15 I am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is #[Ex. 4:22; Ps. 89:27]my firstborn.
10“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will #[See ver. 8 above] gather him,
and will keep him #Isa. 40:11as a shepherd keeps his flock.’
11 #
Isa. 43:1; 44:23; 48:20 For the Lord has ransomed Jacob
and has redeemed him from #[Isa. 49:24, 25]hands too strong for him.
12They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion,
#
Isa. 2:2; Mic. 4:1 and they shall be radiant #Hos. 3:5 over the goodness of the Lord,
# [Deut. 12:17] over the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and over the young of the flock and the herd;
#
Isa. 58:11 their life shall be like a watered garden,
#
Isa. 35:10
and they shall languish no more.
13 # See ver. 4 Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,
and the young men and the old shall be merry.
# [John 16:20] I will turn their mourning into joy;
I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.
14 # [ver. 25] I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance,
and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,
declares the Lord.”
15Thus says the Lord:
# Cited Matt. 2:18 “A voice is heard in #Josh. 18:25 Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
# [Gen. 35:19, 20; 48:7; 1 Sam. 10:2] Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
# ch. 10:20 because they are no more.”
16Thus says the Lord:
“Keep your voice from weeping,
and your eyes from tears,
for there is a reward for your work,
declares the Lord,
and #Ezra 1:5; Hos. 1:11they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
17 # ch. 29:11 There is hope for your future,
declares the Lord,
and your children shall come back to their own country.
18I have heard #[ver. 9] Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
#
Ps. 80:3; Lam. 5:21 bring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the Lord my God.
19For after #Deut. 30:2 I had turned away, I relented,
and after I was instructed, #Ezek. 21:12 I struck my thigh;
# [ch. 3:25] I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
20 # [See ver. 18 above] Is Ephraim my dear son?
# [Prov. 8:30] Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
#
Song 5:4; Isa. 16:11 Therefore my heart#31:20 Hebrew bowels yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.
21 # [Isa. 57:14; 62:10] “Set up road markers for yourself;
make yourself guideposts;
# ch. 50:4, 5 consider well the highway,
# [Isa. 57:14; 62:10] the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
return to these your cities.
22 # ch. 2:18, 23, 36 How long will you waver,
# ch. 49:4 O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
a woman encircles a man.”
23Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, #See ch. 30:3 when I restore their fortunes:
#
Ps. 122:6, 7 “‘The Lord bless you, #ch. 50:7; Isa. 1:26 O habitation of righteousness,
#
Zech. 8:3
O holy hill!’
24 # ch. 33:13 And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and #ch. 33:13the farmers and those who wander with their flocks. 25For I will #Ps. 36:8; [ver. 14]satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”
26At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
27 # ch. 9:25 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when #Ezek. 36:11; Hos. 2:23; Zech. 10:9 I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with #[Ps. 22:30; Isa. 53:10]the seed of man and the seed of beast. 28And it shall come to pass that #ch. 44:27; [ch. 32:42] as I have watched over them #[ver. 40]; See ch. 1:10 to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, #ch. 44:27; [ch. 32:42] so I will watch over them #See ch. 24:6to build and to plant, declares the Lord. 29In those days they shall no longer say:
#
Ezek. 18:2, 3; [Lam. 5:7] “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
30 #
Ezek. 18:4
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
The New Covenant
31 # ver. 31-34, cited Heb. 8:8-12 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make #Luke 22:20; 2 Cor. 3:6a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when #[Deut. 1:31] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, #See ch. 3:14though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33#ch. 32:40; Ezek. 37:26; Cited Heb. 10:16 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: #ch. 32:40; Ezek. 37:26; Cited Heb. 10:16 I will put my law within them, and I will write it #Ps. 37:31; 2 Cor. 3:3 on their hearts. #Hos. 2:23; Zech. 8:8; 13:9; Rev. 21:7; See ch. 30:22And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ #Isa. 54:13 for they shall all know me, #See ch. 6:13 from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For #ch. 33:8; 36:3; 50:20; Mic. 7:18; Acts 10:43; Rom. 11:27; Cited Heb. 10:17 I will forgive their iniquity, and #Isa. 43:25I will remember their sin no more.”
35Thus says the Lord,
who #Gen. 1:16 gives the sun for light by day
and #See ver. 36 the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
# See ch. 10:16 the Lord of hosts is his name:
36 # [Ps. 148:6; Isa. 54:9, 10]; For ver. 36, 37, see ch. 33:20-26 “If this fixed order departs
from before me, declares the Lord,
then shall the offspring of Israel cease
from being a nation before me forever.”
37Thus says the Lord:
“If the heavens above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth below can be explored,
#
Rom. 11:1
then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel
for all that they have done,
declares the Lord.”
38 # ver. 27, 31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord #Neh. 3:1; 12:39; Zech. 14:10 from the Tower of Hananel to #2 Kgs. 14:13the Corner Gate. 39#Ezek. 40:3; Zech. 1:16; 2:1, 2; [Rev. 11:1]And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. 40#[ch. 7:31, 32] The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the #See 2 Sam. 15:23 brook Kidron, to the corner of #2 Chr. 23:15 the Horse Gate toward the east, #Isa. 52:1; Joel 3:17 shall be sacred to the Lord. #[ver. 28]It shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”
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Jeremiah 31
31
1At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God#GodHebrew: Elohim of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 2Thus saith Jehovah: The people that were left of the sword have found grace in the wilderness, even Israel, when I go to give him rest. 3Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee. 4I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel! Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. 5Thou shalt again plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat the fruit. 6For there shall be a day, when the watchmen upon mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion, unto Jehovah our God#GodHebrew: Elohim 7For thus saith Jehovah: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and shout at the head of the nations; publish ye, praise ye, and say, Jehovah, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. 8Behold, I bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth; and among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great assemblage shall they return hither. 9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by water-brooks, in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble; for I will be a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations, and declare it to the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd his flock. 11For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than he. 12And they shall come and sing aloud upon the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for corn, and for new 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 languish any more at all. 13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into gladness, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice after their sorrow. 14And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith Jehovah. 15Thus saith Jehovah: A voice hath been heard in Ramah, the wail of very bitter weeping, — Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are not. 16Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for there is a reward for thy work, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. 17And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah, and thy children shall come again to their own border.
18I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullock not trained: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God#GodHebrew: Elohim 19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I knew myself, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth. 20Is Ephraim a dear son unto me? is he a child of delights? For whilst I have been speaking against him, I do constantly remember him still. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will certainly have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. 21Set up waymarks, make for thyself signposts; set thy heart toward the highway, the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. 22How long wilt thou wander about, thou backsliding daughter? For Jehovah hath created a new thing on the earth, a woman shall encompass a man. 23Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God#GodHebrew: Elohim of Israel: They shall again use this speech, in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn their captivity: Jehovah bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness! 24And therein shall dwell Judah, and all the cities thereof together, the husbandmen, and they that go about with flocks. 25For I have satiated the weary soul, and every languishing soul have I replenished. 26— Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that 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 come to pass, as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to overthrow, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them to build, and to plant, saith Jehovah. 29In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge: 30for every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. 31Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. 33For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God#GodHebrew: Elohim and they shall be my people. 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
35Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar, — Jehovah of hosts is his name: 36If those ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. 37Thus saith Jehovah: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off the whole seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith Jehovah. 38Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the city shall be built to Jehovah, from the tower of Hananeel unto the corner-gate. 39And the measuring line shall yet go forth before it unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn toward Goath. 40And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the torrent Kidron, unto the corner of the horse-gate toward the east, shall be holy unto Jehovah: it shall not be plucked up, nor overthrown any more for ever.
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