At the same time, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, The people which were* left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even* Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
The \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** hath appeared of old unto me, saying*, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them* as common things.
For 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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** our God.
For thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and* with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
They 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, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is* my firstborn.
¶ Hear the word of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, O ye nations, and declare it* in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth* his flock.
For the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was* stronger than he.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Then 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.
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
¶ Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and* bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were* not.
Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
And there is hope in thine end, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus;* Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke:* turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art* the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** my God.
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my* thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Is* Ephraim my dear son? is he* a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
Set 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.
¶ How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** bless thee, O habitation of justice, and* mountain of holiness.
And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that* go forth with flocks.
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
¶ Behold, the days come, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
And 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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.