Jeremiah 31:1-9 ▼

1 “At that time,” a declaration of YHWH, “I will be God for all the families of Israel, and they will be unto Me for a people.

2 Thus says YHWH: “The people surviving the sword found grace in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”

3 YHWH has appeared to me from afar: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; upon thus I have drawn you with loving devotion.

4 Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O virgin Israel! Again you will put on your tambourines, and you will go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.

5 Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; planters will plant, and they will eat freely.

6 For there will be a day when those keeping watch on Mount Ephraim call out: ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to YHWH our God.’”

7 For thus says YHWH: “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations; make it heard, give praise and say, ‘Save, O YHWH, Your people, the remnant of Israel!’

8 Behold, I am bringing them from the north country, and I will gather them from the ends of the earth—among them the blind and the lame, the one pregnant and the one giving birth together; a great assembly will return here.

9 They will come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them; I will cause them to walk to the rivers of waters by a way that is straight; they will not stumble in it. For I am unto Israel for a Father, and Ephraim he is My firstborn.”