Jeremiah 31:1-13 ▼

1 In that time, says Jehovah, I will be for God to all the families of Israel, and they shall be to me for a people.

2 Thus said Jehovah, The people escaped of the sword found grace in the desert; Israel going to cause him to rest.

3 Jehovah was seen to me from afar off; and I loved thee an eternal love: for this I drew thee in kindness.

4 I will yet build thee, and thou wert built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet be adorned with the tabret, and thou wentest forth into the dance of those playing.

5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Shomeron: they planting, planted, and they made common.

6 For there is a day they watching upon mount Ephraim called, Arise ye, and we will go up to Zion to Jehovah our God.

7 For thus said Jehovah, Shout gladness to Jacob, and cry aloud to the head of the nations: cause ye to be heard, praise ye and say, O Jehovah save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

8 Behold me bringing them from the land of the north, and I gathered them from the thighs of the earth, with them the blind and the lame, her being Pregnant, and her bringing forth together: a great convocation shall turn back hither.

9 In weeping will they come, and I will lead them in mercies; I will cause them to go to the streams of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it: for I was to Israel for a father, and Ephraim he is my first-born.

10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations, and announce in the islands from far off, and say, He scattering Israel will gather him, and watch him as the shepherd his flock.

11 For Jehovah redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of the stronger than he.

12 And they came and shouted in the height of Zion, and they flowed together to the goodness of Jehovah, for the grain and for the new wine, and for the oil, and for the sons of the flock and the herd: and their soul was as a watered garden, and they shall not add to pine away any more.

13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old men together: and I turned their mourning to joy, and I comforted them and caused them to rejoice from their sorrow.