performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they
shall be my people.
2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which wereleft of the sword found grace in the wilderness;
evenIsrael, when I went to cause him to rest.
3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting
love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
4 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.
5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall
eat themas common things.
6 For there shall be a day, thatthe watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and
let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the
nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the
earth, andwith them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with
child together: a great company shall return thither.
9 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 ismy firstborn.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare itin the isles afar off, and say, He that
scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd dothhis flock.
11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was
stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the
goodness of the LORD, 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.
13 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.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied
with my goodness, saith the LORD.
15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, andbitter weeping; Rahel
weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they werenot.
16 Thus 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 again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their
own border.
18 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
artthe LORD my God.
19 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.
20 IsEphraim my dear son? is hea 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 LORD.
21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, eventhe
way whichthou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new

thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
23 Thus saith the LORD 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 LORD bless thee,
O habitation of justice, andmountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and
they thatgo forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27 Behold, 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.
28 And it shall come to pass, thatlike 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 LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's
teeth are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth
shall be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day thatI took them by
the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an
husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33 But this shall bethe covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days,
saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be
their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying,
Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them,
saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, andthe ordinances of the moon
and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The
LORD of hosts ishis name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, thenthe seed of Israel also shall
cease from being a nation before me for ever.
37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth
searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith
the LORD.
38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the
tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall
compass about to Goath.
40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook
of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall beholy unto the LORD; it
shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah,
which wasthe eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up
in the court of the prison, which wasin the king of Judah's house.
3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say,
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he

shall take it;
4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely
be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and
his eyes shall behold his eyes;
5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD:
though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my
field that isin Anathoth: for the right of redemption isthine to buy it.
8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of
the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that isin Anathoth, which isin the
country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance isthine, and the redemption isthine; buy itfor
thyself. Then I knew that this wasthe word of the LORD.
9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that wasin Anathoth, and weighed him the
money, evenseventeen shekels of silver.
10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed himthe money
in the balances.
11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, boththat which was sealed accordingto the law and
custom, and that which was open:
12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah,
in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed
the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the
purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen
vessel, that they may continue many days.
15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be
possessed again in this land.
16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I
prayed unto the LORD, saying,
17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and
stretched out arm, andthere is nothing too hard for thee:
18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers
into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, ishis
name,
19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes areopen upon all the ways of the sons
of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, evenunto this day, and in Israel, and
among othermen; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with
wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land
flowing with milk and honey;
23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law;
they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all
this evil to come upon them:
24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand
of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the
pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.