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‘You have chastised me, and I was LORD, when I will make a new covenant with
chastised, the house of Israel and with the house of Ju-
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Like an untrained bull; dah— not according to the covenant that I
Restore me, and I will return, made with their fathers in the day that I took
For You are the LORD my God. them by the hand to lead them out of the land
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Surely, after my turning, I repented; of Egypt, My covenant which they broke,
And after I was instructed, I struck though I was a husband to them, says the
myself on the thigh; LORD. But this is the covenant that I will
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I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, make with the house of Israel after those days,
Because I bore the reproach of my says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds,
youth.’ and write it on their hearts; and I will be their
20 Is Ephraim My dear son? God, and they shall be My people. No more
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Is he a pleasant child? shall every man teach his neighbor, and every
For though I spoke against him, man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for
I earnestly remember him still; they all shall know Me, from the least of them
Therefore My heart yearns for him; to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I
I will surely have mercy on him, says will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will
the LORD. remember no more.”
21 “Set up signposts, 35 Thus says the LORD,
Make landmarks; Who gives the sun for a light by day,
Set your heart toward the highway, The ordinances of the moon and the
The way in which you went. stars for a light by night,
Turn back, O virgin of Israel, Who disturbs the sea,
Turn back to these your cities. And its waves roar
22 How long will you gad about, (The LORD of hosts is His name):
O you backsliding daughter?
For the LORD has created a new thing 36 “If those ordinances depart
in the earth— From before Me, says the LORD,
A woman shall encompass a man.” Then the seed of Israel shall also cease
From being a nation before Me
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Is- forever.”
rael: “They shall again use this speech in the
land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring 37 Thus says the LORD:
back their captivity: ‘The LORD bless you, O “If heaven above can be measured,
home of justice, and mountain of holiness!’
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all And the foundations of the earth
searched out beneath,
its cities together, farmers and those going out I will also cast off all the seed of Israel
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with flocks. For I have satiated the weary soul, For all that they have done, says the
and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.” LORD.
26 After this I awoke and looked around, and
my sleep was sweet to me. 38 “Behold, the days are coming, says the
27 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built for the LORD
LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner
house of Judah with the seed of man and the Gate. The surveyor’s line shall again extend
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seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that as straight forward over the hill Gareb; then it
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I have watched over them to pluck up, to break shall turn toward Goath. And the whole val-
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down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, ley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all
so I will watch over them to build and to plant, the fields as far as the Brook Kidron, to the
says the LORD. In those days they shall say no corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall
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more: be holy to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up
or thrown down anymore forever.”
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, The word that came to Jeremiah from
And the children’s teeth are set on 32 the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah
edge.’
king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year
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30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity; of Nebuchadnezzar. For then the king of
every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jere-
shall be set on edge. miah the prophet was shut up in the court of
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“Behold, the days are coming, says the the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s
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