Jeremiah 31

1“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Lev 26:12 · Ps 48:14 · Ps 144:15 · Isa 11:12 · Isa 41:10 · +23 more

2Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”Cross-references: Ex 1:16 · Ex 1:22 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 5:21 · Ex 12:37 · Ex 14:8 · +23 more

3Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.Cross-references: Deut 4:37 · Deut 7:7 · Deut 10:15 · Deut 33:3 · Deut 33:26 · Ps 103:17 · +18 more

4I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.Cross-references: Ex 15:20 · Judg 11:34 · 1Sam 18:6 · 2Ki 19:21 · Ps 51:18 · Ps 69:35 · +19 more

5Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit.Cross-references: Lev 19:23 · Deut 20:6 · Deut 28:30 · 1Sam 21:5 · Isa 62:8 · Isa 65:21 · +5 more

6For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”Cross-references: 2Chr 13:4 · 2Chr 30:5 · Ezra 1:5 · Ezra 8:15 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 11:11 · +13 more

7For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’Cross-references: Deut 28:13 · Deut 32:43 · Ps 14:7 · Ps 28:9 · Ps 67:1 · Ps 69:35 · +25 more

8Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.Cross-references: Deut 30:4 · Ps 65:5 · Ps 98:3 · Ps 107:3 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 42:16 · +20 more

9They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.Cross-references: Ex 4:22 · Deut 32:6 · 1Chr 29:10 · Ps 23:2 · Ps 126:5 · Isa 35:6 · +28 more

10“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’Cross-references: Gen 10:5 · Deut 30:4 · Deut 32:26 · Ps 72:10 · Isa 24:14 · Isa 27:12 · +26 more

11For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.Cross-references: Ps 142:6 · Isa 44:23 · Isa 48:20 · Isa 49:24 · Jer 15:21 · Jer 50:33 · +7 more

12They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all.Cross-references: Ps 130:4 · Isa 1:30 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 35:10 · Isa 51:11 · +16 more

13Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.Cross-references: Ezra 6:22 · Neh 12:27 · Neh 12:43 · Esth 9:22 · Ps 30:11 · Ps 149:3 · +10 more

14I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 33:8 · 2Chr 6:41 · Neh 10:39 · Ps 17:15 · Ps 36:8 · Ps 63:5 · +18 more

15Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”Cross-references: Gen 5:24 · Gen 35:19 · Gen 37:35 · Gen 42:13 · Gen 42:36 · Josh 18:25 · +10 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

16Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.Cross-references: Gen 43:31 · Gen 45:1 · Ruth 2:12 · 2Chr 15:7 · Ezra 1:5 · Ps 30:5 · +18 more

17There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh. “Your children will come again to their own territory.Cross-references: Ps 102:13 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 11:11 · Jer 29:11 · Jer 46:27 · Lam 3:18 · +10 more

18“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are Yahweh my God.Cross-references: Job 5:17 · Job 33:27 · Ps 32:9 · Ps 39:8 · Ps 80:3 · Ps 80:7 · +39 more

19Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’Cross-references: Lev 26:41 · Deut 30:2 · Deut 30:6 · Ezra 9:6 · Job 13:26 · Job 20:11 · +22 more

20Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 43:30 · Deut 32:36 · Judg 10:16 · 1Ki 3:26 · Ps 103:13 · Prov 3:12 · +15 more

21“Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities.Cross-references: Deut 32:46 · 1Chr 29:3 · 2Chr 11:16 · 2Chr 20:3 · Ps 62:10 · Ps 84:5 · +14 more

22How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Num 16:30 · Isa 7:14 · Jer 2:18 · Jer 2:23 · Jer 2:36 · +19 more

23Yahweh 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.’Cross-references: Ruth 2:4 · Ps 28:9 · Ps 48:1 · Ps 87:1 · Ps 122:5 · Ps 128:5 · +12 more

24Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.Cross-references: Jer 33:11 · Ezek 36:10 · Zech 2:4 · Zech 8:4

25For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”Cross-references: Ps 107:9 · Isa 32:2 · Isa 50:4 · Jer 31:14 · Matt 5:6 · Matt 11:28 · +3 more

26On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.Cross-references: Ps 127:2 · Zech 4:1

27“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.Cross-references: Jer 30:19 · Ezek 36:9 · Ezek 36:11 · Hos 2:23 · Zech 10:9

28It 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.Cross-references: Ps 69:35 · Ps 102:16 · Ps 147:2 · Eccl 3:2 · Jer 1:10 · Jer 18:7 · +8 more

29“In those days they will say no more, “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’Cross-references: Jer 31:30 · Lam 5:7 · Ezek 18:2

30But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.Cross-references: Deut 24:16 · Isa 3:11 · Ezek 3:18 · Ezek 3:24 · Ezek 18:4 · Ezek 18:20 · +6 more

31“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,Cross-references: Jer 23:5 · Jer 30:3 · Jer 31:27 · Jer 32:40 · Jer 33:14 · Jer 50:4 · +14 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

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 covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Ex 24:6 · Lev 26:15 · Deut 1:31 · Deut 5:3 · Deut 29:1 · +28 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Deut 30:6 · Ps 37:31 · Ps 40:8 · Isa 51:7 · Jer 24:7 · +18 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

34They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”Cross-references: 1Sam 2:12 · 1Chr 28:9 · Isa 11:9 · Isa 30:26 · Isa 33:24 · Isa 43:25 · +25 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

35Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar— Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:Cross-references: Gen 1:14 · Ex 14:21 · Deut 4:19 · Job 26:12 · Job 38:10 · Job 38:33 · +26 more

36“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”Cross-references: Deut 32:26 · Ps 72:5 · Ps 72:17 · Ps 89:36 · Ps 102:28 · Ps 119:89 · +5 more

37Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Job 11:7 · Ps 89:2 · Prov 30:4 · Isa 40:12 · Jer 30:11 · Jer 33:22 · +4 more

38“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.Cross-references: 2Ki 14:13 · 2Chr 26:9 · Neh 2:17 · Neh 12:30 · Isa 44:28 · Jer 23:5 · +5 more

39The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah.Cross-references: Ezek 40:8 · Zech 2:1

40The 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.”Cross-references: 2Sam 15:23 · 2Ki 11:16 · 2Ki 23:6 · 2Ki 23:12 · 2Chr 23:15 · Neh 3:28 · +14 more