¹ “At that time,” says the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.” ² The LORD says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.” ³ The LORD appeared of old to me, saying,
“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. ⁴ I will build you again, ⁵ Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. ⁶ For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry,
‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to the LORD our God.’” ⁷ For the LORD says,
“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
‘LORD, save your people, ⁸ Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
along with the blind and the lame, ⁹ They will come with weeping.
Ephraim is my firstborn. ¹⁰ “Hear the LORD’s word, you nations,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, ¹¹ For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, ¹² They will come and sing in the height of Zion, ¹³ Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, ¹⁴ I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, ¹⁵ The LORD says:
“A voice is heard in Ramah, ¹⁶ The LORD says:
“Refrain your voice from weeping,
“They will come again from the land of the enemy. ¹⁷ There is hope for your latter end,” says the LORD.
“Your children will come again to their own territory. ¹⁸ “I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus,
‘You have chastised me, ¹⁹ Surely after that I was turned. ²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? ²¹ “Set up road signs.
even the way by which you went. ²² How long will you go here and there, ²³ The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘The LORD bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’ ²⁴ Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. ²⁵ For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.” ²⁶ On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. ²⁷ “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal. ²⁸ It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says the LORD. ²⁹ “In those days they will say no more,
“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, ³⁰ But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge. ³¹ “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, ³² not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says the LORD. ³³ “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD:
“I will put my law in their inward parts, ³⁴ They will no longer each teach his neighbor,
“for I will forgive their iniquity, ³⁵ The LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, ³⁶ “If these ordinances depart from before me,” says the LORD,
“then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.” ³⁷ The LORD says: “If heaven above can be measured, ³⁸ “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that the city will be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. ³⁹ The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah. ⁴⁰ The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”