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JEREMIAH
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- And 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.
- 14And I will 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 is heard in Ramah,
- Lamentation, and bitter weeping,
- Rachel weeping for her children;
- She refuseth to be comforted for her children,
- Because they are not.
- 16Thus saith the Lord:
- Refrain thy voice from weeping,
- And thine eyes from tears;
- For thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord;
- And they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
- 17And there is hope for thy future, saith the Lord;
- And thy children shall return to their own border.
- 18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself:
- 'Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised,
- As a calf untrained;
- Turn thou me, and I shall be turned,
- For Thou art the Lord my God.
- 19Surely 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.'
- 20Is Ephraim a darling son unto Me?
- Is he a child that is dandled?
- For as often as I speak of him,
- I do earnestly remember him still;
- Therefore My heart yearneth for him,
- I will surely have compassion upon him, saith the Lord.
- 21Set thee up waymarks,
- Make thee guide-posts;
- Set thy heart toward the highway,
- Even the way by which thou wentest;
- Return, O virgin of Israel,
- Return to these thy cities.
- 22How long wilt thou turn away coyly,
- O thou backsliding daughter?
- For the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth:
- A woman shall court a man.
- 23Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
- Yet again shall they use this speech
- In the land of Judah and in the cities thereof,
- When I shall turn their captivity:
- 'The Lord bless thee, O habitation of righteousness,
- O mountain of holiness.'
- 24And Judah and all the cities thereof
- Shall dwell therein together:
- The husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
- 25For I have satiated the weary soul,
- And every pining soul have I replenished.
- 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,
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