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Jeremiah 31 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:1 - “At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:2 - This is what the LORD says: “The people who survive the sword will find favor in the wilderness; I will come to give rest to Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:3 - The LORD appeared to us in the past,[fn] saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:4 - I will build you up again, and you, Virgin Israel, will be rebuilt. Again you will take up your timbrels and go out to dance with the joyful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:5 - Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:6 - There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Come, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:7 - This is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, ‘LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:8 - See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. Among them will be the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor; a great throng will return.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:9 - They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:10 - “Hear the word of the LORD, you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands: ‘He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a shepherd.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:11 - For the LORD will deliver Jacob and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:12 - They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:14 - I will satisfy the priests with abundance, and my people will be filled with my bounty,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:15 - This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:16 - This is what the LORD says: “Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,”

declares the LORD.

“They will return from the land of the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:17 - So there is hope for your descendants,”

declares the LORD.

“Your children will return to their own land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:18 - “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the LORD my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:19 - After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:20 - Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21 - “Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Take note of the highway, the road that you take. Return, Virgin Israel, return to your towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:22 - How long will you wander, unfaithful Daughter Israel? The LORD will create a new thing on earth— the woman will return to[fn] the man.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:23 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “When I bring them back from captivity,[fn] the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: ‘The LORD bless you, you prosperous city, you sacred mountain.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:24 - People will live together in Judah and all its towns—farmers and those who move about with their flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:25 - I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:26 - At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 - “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will plant the kingdoms of Israel and Judah with the offspring of people and of animals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28 - Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:29 - “In those days people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:30 - Instead, everyone will die for their own sin; whoever eats sour grapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:31 - “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to[fn] them,[fn]”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:33 - “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:34 - No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,”

declares the LORD.

“For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD Almighty is his name:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:36 - “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,” declares the LORD, “will Israel ever cease being a nation before me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:37 - This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:38 - “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:39 - The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:40 - The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the LORD. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
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NIV Footnotes
Or LORD has appeared to us from afar
Or will protect
Or I restore their fortunes
Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac / and I turned away from
Or was their master
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