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JEREMIAH
- 24The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return,
- Until He have executed, and till He have performed
- The purposes of His heart;
- In the end of days ye shall consider it.
- 31At that 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 that were left of the sword
- Have found grace in the wilderness,
- Even Israel, when I go to cause him to rest.
- 3'From afar the Lord appeared unto me.'
- 'Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love;
- Therefore with affection have I drawn thee.
- 4Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built,
- O virgin of Israel;
- Again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets,
- And shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
- 5Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria;
- The planters shall plant, and shall have the use thereof.
- 6For there shall be a day,
- That the watchmen shall call upon the mount Ephraim:
- 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 at the head of the nations;
- Announce 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 uttermost parts 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 they return hither.
- 9They shall come with weeping,
- And with supplications will I lead them;
- I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters,
- In a straight way wherein they shall not stumble;
- For I am become a father to Israel,
- And Ephraim is My first-born.
- 10Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations,
- And declare it in the isles afar off, and say:
- 'He that scattered Israel doth gather him,
- And keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.'
- 11For the Lord hath ransomed Jacob,
- And He redeemeth him from the hand of him that is stronger than he.
- 12And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,
- And shall flow unto the goodness of the Lord,
- To the corn, and to the wine, and to the oil,
- And to the young of the flock and of the herd;
- And their soul shall be as a watered garden,
- And they shall not pine any more at all.
- 13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,
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