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. See also: Jeremiah 30:22 Isaiah 41:10 Jeremiah 30:24 Zechariah 13:9 Genesis 17:7-8
2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. See also: Numbers 10:33 Psalms 95:11 Deuteronomy 1:33 Matthew 11:28 Isaiah 63:7-14
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. See also: Psalms 103:17 Isaiah 54:8-9 Hosea 11:4 Ephesians 2:4-5 Deuteronomy 33:3
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. See also: Jeremiah 33:7 Jeremiah 31:13 Amos 5:2 Jeremiah 30:18-19 Acts 15:16
5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. See also: Amos 9:14 Leviticus 19:23-25 Deuteronomy 28:30 Isaiah 65:21-22 Micah 4:4
6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. See also: Jeremiah 50:4-5 Isaiah 2:2-4 Isaiah 52:7-8 Jeremiah 50:19 Micah 4:1-3
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. See also: Psalms 28:9 Psalms 14:7 Isaiah 37:31 Isaiah 42:10-12 Jeremiah 23:3
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts 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 return thither. See also: Ezekiel 34:16 Isaiah 42:16 Jeremiah 23:8 Micah 4:6 Isaiah 40:11
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 is my firstborn. See also: Matthew 5:4 Exodus 4:22 Jeremiah 3:4 Jeremiah 31:20 Jeremiah 50:4
10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. See also: Isaiah 40:11 Ezekiel 34:12 Deuteronomy 30:4 Isaiah 66:19 John 11:52
11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. See also: Isaiah 44:23 Isaiah 48:20 Titus 2:14 Psalms 142:6 Isaiah 49:24
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. See also: Isaiah 35:10 Isaiah 58:11 Joel 3:18 Isaiah 60:20 Isaiah 65:19
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. See also: Psalms 30:11 Isaiah 61:3 Isaiah 51:11 Isaiah 51:3 Esther 9:22
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 31:25 1 Peter 2:9 Jeremiah 33:9 Psalms 107:9 Song of Solomon 5:1
15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. See also: Matthew 2:16-18 Psalms 77:2 Jeremiah 40:1 Genesis 35:19 Genesis 37:35
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. See also: Ruth 2:12 Jeremiah 30:3 Hebrews 6:10 Jeremiah 33:7 Mark 5:38-39
17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border. See also: Lamentations 3:21 Hosea 3:5 Jeremiah 29:11-16 Lamentations 3:18 Lamentations 3:26
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 art the LORD my God. See also: Jeremiah 31:9 Psalms 80:3 Job 5:17 Isaiah 9:13 Jeremiah 3:21-22
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. See also: Jeremiah 3:25 Ezekiel 36:31 Ezekiel 21:12 Luke 18:13 Deuteronomy 30:2
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a 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. See also: Isaiah 55:7 Micah 7:18-19 Judges 10:16 Psalms 103:13 Isaiah 63:15
21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. See also: Jeremiah 50:5 Isaiah 62:10 Psalms 84:5 Isaiah 48:20 Isaiah 52:11-12
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. See also: Jeremiah 7:24 Jeremiah 49:4 Matthew 1:21 Luke 1:34-35 Genesis 3:15
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, and mountain of holiness. See also: Zechariah 8:3 Isaiah 1:26 Jeremiah 50:7 Ruth 2:4 Psalms 28:9
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. See also: Zechariah 8:4-8 Ezekiel 36:10 Jeremiah 33:11-13 Zechariah 2:4
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. See also: Matthew 5:6 Matthew 11:28 Psalms 107:9 John 4:14 Jeremiah 31:14
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. See also: Psalms 127:2 Zechariah 4:1-2
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. See also: Hosea 2:23 Ezekiel 36:9 Ezekiel 36:11 Zechariah 10:9 Jeremiah 30:19
28 And it shall come to pass, that like 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. See also: Jeremiah 24:6 Jeremiah 1:10 Jeremiah 18:7-9 Jeremiah 44:27 Jeremiah 45:4
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. See also: Lamentations 5:7 Ezekiel 18:2-3 Jeremiah 31:30
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. See also: Ezekiel 18:20 Isaiah 3:11 Deuteronomy 24:16 Galatians 6:5 Ezekiel 18:4
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: See also: Hebrews 10:16-17 Jeremiah 31:31-34 Ezekiel 37:26 Jeremiah 32:40 2 Corinthians 3:6
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I 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: See also: Exodus 24:6-8 Exodus 19:5 Deuteronomy 1:31 Deuteronomy 5:3 John 3:29
33 But this shall be the 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. See also: 2 Corinthians 3:3 Hebrews 10:16 Hebrews 8:10 Ezekiel 11:19-20 Jeremiah 24:7
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. See also: Isaiah 43:25 Hebrews 8:12 Isaiah 54:13 Jeremiah 33:8 1 John 2:27
35 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the 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 is his name: See also: Isaiah 51:15 Jeremiah 10:16 Psalms 136:7-9 Genesis 1:14-18 Jeremiah 50:34
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. See also: Psalms 89:36-37 Isaiah 54:9-10 Jeremiah 33:20-26 Psalms 148:6 Deuteronomy 32:26
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. See also: Jeremiah 33:24-26 Isaiah 40:12 Jeremiah 33:22 Romans 11:1-5 Romans 11:26-29
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. See also: Zechariah 14:10 2 Kings 14:13 Jeremiah 30:18 2 Chronicles 26:9 Jeremiah 31:27
39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. See also: Zechariah 2:1-2 Ezekiel 40:8
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 be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever. See also: 2 Samuel 15:23 Joel 3:17 2 Kings 11:16 2 Chronicles 23:15 John 18:1