Jeremiah 31
1 in/on/with time [the] he/she/it utterance LORD to be to/for God to/for all family Israel and they(masc.) to be to/for me to/for people
At that time, I will be the God of all Israel's families, and they will be my people, declares the Lord.
2 thus to say LORD to find favor in/on/with wilderness people survivor sword to go: come to/for to rest him Israel
This is what the Lord says: The Israelites who survive death by the sword were blessed by the Lord in the desert as they looked for peace and quiet.
3 from distant LORD to see: see to/for me and love forever: enduring to love: lover you upon so to draw you kindness
Long ago the Lord came and told us, My love for you will last forever. I hold you close to me with my trustworthy love.
4 still to build you and to build virgin Israel still to adorn tambourine your and to come out: come in/on/with dance to laugh
I'm going to rebuild you, and it will happen. You will be rebuilt, Virgin Israel. You will pick up your tambourines again and run outside to dance with joy.
5 still to plant vineyard in/on/with mountain: mount Samaria to plant to plant and to profane/begin: fruit
You will replant vineyards on Samaria's hills; those who plant and will enjoy the grapes.
6 for there day to call: call out to watch in/on/with mountain: hill country Ephraim to arise: rise and to ascend: rise Zion to(wards) LORD God our
A day is coming when watchmen will call out from the hills of Ephraim, “Come on, let's go up to Zion, to worship the Lord our God!”
7 for thus to say LORD to sing to/for Jacob joy and to cry out in/on/with head: leader [the] nation to hear: proclaim to boast: praise and to say to save LORD [obj] people your [obj] remnant Israel
This is what the Lord says: Sing happily for the descendants of Jacob; shout for the greatest of all nations! Let everybody know! Praise and call out, “Lord, save your people, those who are left of Israel!”
8 look! I to come (in): bring [obj] them from land: country/planet north and to gather them from flank land: country/planet in/on/with them blind and lame pregnant and to beget together assembly great: large to return: return here/thus
Watch, because I will bring them back from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. Everyone will return, even the blind and the lame, pregnant women, even mothers giving birth—a great gathering coming home,
9 in/on/with weeping to come (in): come and in/on/with supplication to conduct them to go: walk them to(wards) torrent: river water in/on/with way: road upright not to stumble in/on/with her for to be to/for Israel to/for father and Ephraim firstborn my he/she/it
They will come back with tears in their eyes, and they will be praying as I take them home. I will lead them beside streams of waters, on level paths where they won't stumble. For I am Israel's Father; Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 to hear: hear word LORD nation and to tell in/on/with coastland from distance and to say to scatter Israel to gather him and to keep: guard him like/as to pasture flock his
Listen, nations, to what the Lord has to say, and let others know about in faraway countries: The Lord who scattered Israel will gather them together and keep them safe, just like a shepherd looks after his flock.
11 for to ransom LORD [obj] Jacob and to redeem: redeem him from hand strong from him
The Lord has redeemed the descendants of Jacob and rescued them from their enemies who had defeated them.
12 and to come (in): come and to sing in/on/with height Zion and to flow to(wards) goodness LORD upon grain and upon new wine and upon oil and upon son: young animal flock and cattle and to be soul: life their like/as garden watered and not to add: again to/for to languish still
They will return and celebrate with happy shouts on Mount Zion; their faces will beam over the Lord's wonderful gifts—the grain, new wine, and olive oil, and the young of their flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden; and they won't ever be depressed again.
13 then to rejoice virgin in/on/with dance and youth and old together and to overturn mourning their to/for rejoicing and to be sorry: comfort them and to rejoice them from sorrow their
The girls will dance in celebration; young men and old people will join in too. I will turn their sorrow into joy, and I will comfort them and change their sadness into happiness.
14 and to quench soul [the] priest ashes and people my [obj] goodness my to satisfy utterance LORD
I will give my priests everything they need and more, and my people will be more than satisfied with my goodness towards them, declares the Lord.
15 thus to say LORD voice in/on/with Ramah to hear: hear wailing weeping bitterness Rachel to weep upon son: child her to refuse to/for to be sorry: comfort upon son: child her for nothing he
This is what the Lord says: The sound of terrible weeping and mourning is heard in Ramah. It's Rachel crying for her children. They are dead, and she can't be comforted
16 thus to say LORD to withhold voice your from weeping and eye your from tears for there wages to/for wages your utterance LORD and to return: return from land: country/planet enemy
This is what the Lord says: Don't cry anymore, don't weep anymore, because you're going to be rewarded for what you've done, declares the Lord. Your children will return from the country of your enemies.
17 and there hope to/for end your utterance LORD and to return: return son: child to/for border: area their
So you can have hope for the future, declares the Lord. Your children will return to their own country.
18 to hear: hear to hear: hear Ephraim to wander to discipline me and to discipline like/as calf not to learn: teach to return: return me and to return: rescue for you(m. s.) LORD God my
Don't worry, I've heard Ephraim's groans, saying, “You disciplined me really hard as if I was a calf that hadn't been trained. Please bring me back, let me return, for you are the Lord my God.
19 for after to return: repent I to be sorry: relent and after to know I to slap upon thigh be ashamed and also be humiliated for to lift: bear reproach youth my
When I came back to you I was sorry, and once I understood, I held my head in sadness. I was ashamed and I blushed, embarrassed at what I'd done when I was young.”
20 son: child precious to/for me Ephraim if: surely yes youth delight for from sufficiency to speak: speak I in/on/with him to remember to remember him still upon so to roar belly my to/for him to have compassion to have compassion him utterance LORD
But isn't Ephraim still my precious son, my lovely child? Even though I often have to scold him, I can't forget him. So I'm torn inside with longing, wanting to show how much I care about him! declares the Lord.
21 to stand to/for you signpost to set: make to/for you signpost to set: consider heart your to/for highway way: road (to go: went *QK) to return: return virgin Israel to return: return to(wards) city your these
Put up markers on the road; make signposts for yourselves. You need to be sure you can find the highway, the road you traveled on. Come back, Virgin Israel, come back to your towns.
22 till how to turn away [emph?] [the] daughter [the] backsliding for to create LORD new in/on/with land: country/planet female to turn: surround great man
How long are you going to waver in your decision, you unfaithful daughter? For the Lord has made something new happen here: a woman is going to protect a man.
23 thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel still to say [obj] [the] word [the] this in/on/with land: country/planet Judah and in/on/with city his in/on/with to return: rescue I [obj] captivity their to bless you LORD pasture righteousness mountain: mount [the] holiness
This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: When I bring them back home from exile, they will say again in the land of Judah and in its towns: “May the Lord bless you, holy mountain of Jerusalem, home of what is good and right.
24 and to dwell in/on/with her Judah and all city his together farmer and to set out in/on/with flock
The people of Judah and all its towns will live together in the land, the farmers and those who move around with their flocks,
25 for to quench soul faint and all soul to languish to fill
because I'm going to give rest to those who are tired and give strength to all those who are weak.”
26 upon this to awake and to see: see and sleep my to please to/for me
At this I woke up and looked around. I'd had a very pleasant sleep.
27 behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and to sow [obj] house: household Israel and [obj] house: household Judah seed man and seed animal
Look! The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make the numbers of people and livestock grow in Israel and Judah.
28 and to be like/as as which to watch upon them to/for to uproot and to/for to tear and to/for to overthrow and to/for to perish and to/for be evil so to watch upon them to/for to build and to/for to plant utterance LORD
I took care of them by uprooting them and tearing them down, by wiping them out and destroying them and bringing them disaster. Now I will take care of them by building them up and helping them grow, declares the Lord.
29 in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) not to say still father to eat unripe grape and tooth son: child be blunt
At that time people won't repeat this proverb, “The fathers ate the unripe grapes, but their children got the sour taste.”
30 that if: except if: except man: anyone in/on/with iniquity: crime his to die all [the] man [the] to eat [the] unripe grape be blunt tooth his
No. Each person will die because of their own sins. If anyone eats unripe grapes, they will get the sour taste themselves.
31 behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and to cut: make(covenant) with house: household Israel and with house: household Judah covenant new
Look! The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and Judah.
32 not like/as covenant which to cut: make(covenant) with father their in/on/with day to strengthen: hold I in/on/with hand their to/for to come out: send them from land: country/planet Egypt which they(masc.) to break [obj] covenant my and I rule: to marry in/on/with them utterance LORD
It won't be like the agreement that I made with their forefathers when I held their hands and led them out of Egypt. They broke that agreement, even though I was faithful like a husband to them, declares the Lord.
33 for this [the] covenant which to cut: make(covenant) with house: household Israel after [the] day [the] they(masc.) utterance LORD to give: put [obj] instruction my in/on/with entrails: among their and upon heart their to write her and to be to/for them to/for God and they(masc.) to be to/for me to/for people
But this is the agreement I'm going to make with the people of Israel at that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws inside them and write them in their minds. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
34 and not to learn: teach still man: anyone [obj] neighbor his and man: anyone [obj] brother: male-sibling his to/for to say to know [obj] LORD for all their to know [obj] me to/for from small their and till great: large their utterance LORD for to forgive to/for iniquity: crime their and to/for sin their not to remember still
No one will need to teach a neighbor or their brother, telling them, “You ought to know the Lord.” For everyone will know me, from the smallest to the greatest. I will forgive them when they do wrong, and I will forget about their sins.
35 thus to say LORD to give: give sun to/for light by day statute moon and star to/for light night to disturb [the] sea and to roar heap: wave his LORD Hosts name his
This is what the Lord says, who provides the sun to give light during the day, who places in order the moon and stars to give light at night, who makes the sea rough so that its waves roar; his name is the Lord Almighty:
36 if to remove [the] statute: decree [the] these from to/for face: before my utterance LORD also seed: children Israel to cease from to be nation to/for face: before my all [the] day: always
Only if I allowed this order to fell apart, declares the Lord, would Israel's descendants stop being my people.
37 thus to say LORD if to measure heaven from to/for above [to] and to search foundation land: country/planet to/for beneath also I to reject in/on/with all seed: children Israel upon all which to make: do utterance LORD
This is what the Lord says: Only if the heavens above could be measured, and the foundations of the earth below could be investigated, would I reject all of Israel's descendants because of everything they've done, declares the Lord.
38 behold (day to come (in): come *QK) utterance LORD and to build [the] city to/for LORD from (Hananel) Tower (Tower of) Hananel gate [the] Corner (Gate)
The time is coming, declares the Lord, when this city will be rebuilt for the Lord, all the way from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
39 and to come out: come still (line *QK) [the] measure before him upon hill Gareb and to turn: turn Goah [to]
The builder's measuring line will again stretch out directly to Gareb Hill and then turn toward Goah.
40 and all [the] valley [the] corpse and [the] ashes and all ([the] field *QK) till torrent: valley Kidron till corner gate [the] Horse (Gate) east [to] holiness to/for LORD not to uproot and not to overthrow still to/for forever: enduring
The entire valley, where the dead are buried and the trash is dumped, and all the fields from the Kidron Valley as far as the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the Lord. Jerusalem will never again be torn down or destroyed.
