1 At that time, says the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people. 2 Thus says the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with those who were killed with the sword: go, and do not destroy Israel. 3 The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore I have drawn you in compassion. 4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, virgin of Israel: you shall yet take your timbrel, and go forth with the party of those who make merry. 5 Again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant, and praise. 6 For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise, and go up to Zion to the Lord our God. 7 For thus says the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise: say, The Lord has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel. 8 Look, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and the people shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return here. 9 They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 10 Hear the words of the Lord, you nations, and proclaim them to the islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock. 11 For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of those who were stronger than he. 12 And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Zion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, even to a land of grain, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more. 13 Then the virgins will rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry. 14 I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests the sons of Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good things. 15 Thus says the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing; Rachel would not cease weeping for her sons, because they are not.⁠a 16 Thus says the Lord; Let your voice cease from weeping, and your eyes from your tears: for there is a reward for your works; and they shall return from the land of your enemies. 17 There shall be an lasting home for your children. 18 I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, and saying, You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined; I as a calf was not willingly taught: turn me, and I shall turn; for you are the Lord my God. 19 For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and showed you that I bore reproach from my youth. 20 Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste to help him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord. 21 Prepare yourself, Zion; execute vengeance; look to your ways: return, virgin of Israel, by the way by which you went, return mourning to your cities. 22 How long, disgraced daughter, will you turn away? for the Lord has created safety for a new plantation: men shall go about in safety. 23 For thus says the Lord; They shall yet speak this word in the land of Judah, and in its cities, when I shall turn his captivity; blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy mountain! 24 And there shall be dwellers in the cities of Judah, and in all his land, together with the farmer, and the shepherd shall go forth with the flock. 25 For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul. 26 Therefore I awoke, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. 27 Therefore, look, the days come, says the Lord, when I will sow Israel and Judah with the seed of man, and the seed of beast. 28 And it will happen, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so I will watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the Lord. 29 In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge. 30 But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge. 31 Look, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not remain in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.⁠b 33 For this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. 34 And they shall not at all teach every one his fellow citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more. 35 Though the sky should be raised to a greater height, says the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk lower beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, says the Lord, for all that they have done. 36 Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and makes a roaring in the sea, so that its waves roar; the Lord Almighty is his name: 37 if these ordinances cease from before me, says the Lord, then the family of Israel will cease to be a nation before me forever. 38 Look, the days come, says the Lord, when the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hanamel to the gate of the corner. 39 And the measurement of it shall proceed in front of them as far as the hills of Gareb, and it shall be surrounded with a circular wall of choice stones. 40 And all the Asaremoth even to Nachal Kidron, as far as the corner of the horse-gate eastward, shall be holiness to the Lord; and it shall not fail any more, and shall not be destroyed for ever.