Jeremiah 31

“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”

Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

and will enjoy its fruit.

‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’ ”

the remnant of Israel!’

They will return as a great company.

Ephraim is my firstborn.

and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

They will not sorrow any more at all.

and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

because they are no more.”

“They will come again from the land of the enemy.

“Your children will come again to their own territory.

for you are Yahweh my God.

because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

Turn again to these your cities.

a woman will encompass a man.”

Yahweh 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: ‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’

Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.

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 Yahweh.

and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

and with the house of Judah:

although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.

and they shall be my people.

and I will remember their sin no more.”

Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

“then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”

then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the city will be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.

The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah.

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 Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”