JEREMIAH 31

¹ “At that time,” declares Jehovah, “I will become God to all the families of Israel, and they will become my people.”

² When Israel was walking to his resting-place.”

³ That is why I have drawn you to me with loyal love.

⁴ And go forth dancing joyfully.

⁵ The planters will plant and enjoy their fruit.

⁶ ‘Rise up, let us go up to Zion, to Jehovah our God.’”

⁷ ‘O Jehovah, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’

⁸ As a great congregation they will return here.

⁹ For I am a Father to Israel, and Eʹphra·im is my firstborn.”

¹⁰ He will watch over him as a shepherd does his flock.

¹¹ And rescue him out of the hand of the one stronger than he is.

¹² And they will never languish again.”

¹³ I will comfort them and give them joy instead of their grief.

¹⁴ And my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” declares Jehovah.

¹⁵ Because they are no more.’”

¹⁶ ‘They will return from the land of the enemy.’

¹⁷ ‘Your sons will return to their own territory.’”

¹⁸ For you are Jehovah my God.

¹⁹ For I bore the reproach of my youth.’”

²⁰ And I will surely have pity on him,” declares Jehovah.

²¹ Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these cities of yours.

²² A woman will eagerly pursue a man.”

²³ This is what Jehovah of armies, the God of Israel, says: “They will again say these words in the land of Judah and in its cities when I gather back their captives: ‘May Jehovah bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.’

²⁴ And in it Judah and all its cities will dwell all together, farmers and those who lead the flocks.

²⁵ For I will satisfy the weary one and fill each one who is languishing.”

²⁶ At this I awoke and opened my eyes, and my sleep had been pleasurable to me.

²⁷ “Look! The days are coming,” declares Jehovah, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of livestock.”

²⁸ “And just as I watched over them to uproot, to pull down, to tear down, to destroy, and to do harm, so I will watch over them to build up and to plant,” declares Jehovah.

²⁹ “In those days they will no longer say, ‘The fathers ate sour grapes, but the teeth of the sons were set on edge.’

³⁰ But then each one will die for his own error. Any man eating sour grapes will have his own teeth set on edge.”

³¹ “Look! The days are coming,” declares Jehovah, “when I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant.

³² It will not be like the covenant that I made with their forefathers on the day I took hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, ‘my covenant that they broke, although I was their true master,’ declares Jehovah.”

³³ “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares Jehovah. “I will put my law within them, and in their heart I will write it. And I will become their God, and they will become my people.”

³⁴ “And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know Jehovah!’ for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them,” declares Jehovah. “For I will forgive their error, and I will no longer remember their sin.”

³⁵ Whose name is Jehovah of armies:

³⁶ ‘Only then would the offspring of Israel cease as a nation before me always.’”

³⁷ This is what Jehovah says: “‘If the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below could be explored, only then could I reject all the offspring of Israel for all they have done,’ declares Jehovah.”

³⁸ “Look! The days are coming,” declares Jehovah, “when the city will be built to Jehovah from the Tower of Ha·nanʹel to the Corner Gate.

³⁹ And the measuring line will go out straight ahead to the hill of Gaʹreb, and it will turn toward Goʹah.

⁴⁰ And all the valley of the carcasses and of ashes and all the terraces as far as the Kidʹron Valley, clear to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be something holy to Jehovah. It will never again be uprooted or torn down.”