1At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people. 2Thus saith the LORD, The people who were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness, even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. 3The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore, with loving-kindness have I drawn thee. 4Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel; thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them who make merry. 5Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. 6For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise {ye}, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD, our God.

7For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations; publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save Thy people, the remnant of Israel. 8Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the farthest parts {borders} of the earth, and, with them, the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travaileth with child together; a great company shall return here {thither}. 9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which {wherein} they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first-born.

10Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the coasts {isles} afar off, and say, He Who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. 12Therefore, they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for grain {wheat}, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul shall be like {as} a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 14And I will fill to the full {satiate} the soul of the priests with fatness, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, saith the LORD.

15Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel, weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. 16Thus saith the LORD; Restrain {Refrain} thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. 17And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, like {as} a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; turn {Thou} me back, and I shall be restored {turned}; for Thou art the LORD, my God. 19Surely after I was turned away, I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. 20Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still; therefore, My heart is {bowels are} troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. 21Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps; set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest; turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these, thy cities. 22How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

23Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in its {the} cities {thereof}, when I shall bring again their captivity: The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. 24And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all its {the} cities {thereof} together, farmers {husbandmen}, and they who go forth with flocks. 25For I have filled full {satiated} the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. 26Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

27Behold, the days come, saith 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 beast. 28And it shall come to pass, that {like} as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

29In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. 30But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

31Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, 32Not 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, My covenant, they broke {brake}, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD; 33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

35Thus saith the LORD, Who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, Who divideth the sea when its {the} waves {thereof} roar; The LORD of hosts is His name: 36If those ordinances depart from before Me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever. 37Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

38Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananel unto the gate of the corner. 39And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill, Gareb, and shall compass about to Goah. 40And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.