Jeremiah 31 - English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)

The Lord Will Turn Mourning to Joy

31 ^(A)“At that time, declares the Lord, ^(B)I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people.”

² Thus says the Lord:
“The people who survived the sword
found grace in the wilderness;
^(C)when Israel sought for rest,
³ the Lord appeared to him^[a] from far away.
^(D)I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore ^(E)I have continued ^(F)my faithfulness to you.
^{4 (G)}Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
O virgin Israel!
^(H)Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines
and shall go forth in ^(I)the dance of the merrymakers.
^{5 (J)}Again you shall plant vineyards
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters shall plant
and shall enjoy the fruit.
⁶ For there shall be a day when watchmen will call
in ^(K)the hill country of Ephraim:
^(L)‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
to the Lord our God.’”
⁷ For thus says the Lord:
^(M)“Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
and raise shouts for ^(N)the chief of the nations;
proclaim, give praise, and say,
^(O)‘O Lord, save your people,
the remnant of Israel.’
⁸ Behold, I will bring them ^(P)from the north country
and ^(Q)gather them from ^(R)the farthest parts of the earth,
among them ^(S)the blind and the lame,
the pregnant woman and she who is in labour, together;
a great company, they shall return here.
^{9 (T)}With weeping they shall come,
^(U)and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them ^(V)walk by brooks of water,
^(W)in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for ^(X)I am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is ^(Y)my firstborn.
¹⁰ “Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will ^(Z)gather him,
and will keep him ^(AA)as a shepherd keeps his flock.’
^{11 (AB)}For the Lord has ransomed Jacob
and has redeemed him from ^(AC)hands too strong for him.
¹² They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion,
^(AD)and they shall be radiant ^(AE)over the goodness of the Lord,
^(AF)over the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and over the young of the flock and the herd;
^(AG)their life shall be like a watered garden,
^(AH)and they shall languish no more.
^{13 (AI)}Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,
and the young men and the old shall be merry.
^(AJ)I will turn their mourning into joy;
I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.
^{14 (AK)}I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance,
and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,
declares the Lord.”
¹⁵ Thus says the Lord:
^(AL)“A voice is heard in ^(AM)Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
^(AN)Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
^(AO)because they are no more.”
¹⁶ Thus says the Lord:
“Keep your voice from weeping,
and your eyes from tears,
for there is a reward for your work,
declares the Lord,
and ^(AP)they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
^{17 (AQ)}There is hope for your future,
declares the Lord,
and your children shall come back to their own country.
¹⁸ I have heard ^(AR)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
^(AS)bring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the Lord my God.
¹⁹ For after ^(AT)I had turned away, I relented,
and after I was instructed, ^(AU)I struck my thigh;
^(AV)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
^{20 (AW)}Is Ephraim my dear son?
^(AX)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
^(AY)Therefore my heart^[b] yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.
^{21 (AZ)}“Set up road markers for yourself;
make yourself guideposts;
^(BA)consider well the highway,
^(BB)the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
return to these your cities.
^{22 (BC)}How long will you waver,
^(BD)O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
a woman encircles a man.”

²³ Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, ^(BE)when I restore their fortunes:

^(BF)“‘The Lord bless you, ^(BG)O habitation of righteousness,
^(BH)O holy hill!’

^{24 (BI)}And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and ^(BJ)the farmers and those who wander with their flocks. ²⁵ For I will ^(BK)satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”

²⁶ At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

^{27 (BL)}“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when ^(BM)I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with ^(BN)the seed of man and the seed of beast. ²⁸ And it shall come to pass that ^(BO)as I have watched over them ^(BP)to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, ^(BQ)so I will watch over them ^(BR)to build and to plant, declares the Lord. ²⁹ In those days they shall no longer say:

^(BS)“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children's teeth are set on edge.’

^{30 (BT)}But everyone shall die for his own sin. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

The New Covenant

^{31 (BU)}“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make ^(BV)a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, ³² not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when ^(BW)I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, ^(BX)though I was their husband, declares the Lord. ^{33 (BY)}But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: ^(BZ)I will put my law within them, and I will write it ^(CA)on their hearts. ^(CB)And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And no longer shall each one teach his neighbour and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord’, ^(CC)for they shall all know me, ^(CD)from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For ^(CE)I will forgive their iniquity, and ^(CF)I will remember their sin no more.”

³⁵ Thus says the Lord,
who ^(CG)gives the sun for light by day
and ^(CH)the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
^(CI)the Lord of hosts is his name:
^{36 (CJ)}“If this fixed order departs
from before me, declares the Lord,
then shall the offspring of Israel cease
from being a nation before me for ever.”
³⁷ Thus says the Lord:
“If the heavens above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth below can be explored,
^(CK)then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel
for all that they have done,
declares the Lord.”

^{38 (CL)}“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord ^(CM)from the Tower of Hananel to ^(CN)the Corner Gate. ^{39 (CO)}And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. ^{40 (CP)}The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the ^(CQ)brook Kidron, to the corner of ^(CR)the Horse Gate towards the east, ^(CS)shall be sacred to the Lord. ^(CT)It shall not be uprooted or overthrown any more for ever.”

Footnotes

1. Jeremiah 31:3 Septuagint; Hebrew me
2. Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels

Cross references

1. Jeremiah 31:1 : ch. 30:24
2. Jeremiah 31:1 : [2 Cor. 6:18]; See ch. 30:22
3. Jeremiah 31:2 : [ch. 30:10; Ps. 95:11; Isa. 63:14]
4. Jeremiah 31:3 : Deut. 7:8; 10:15; Mal. 1:2; Rom. 11:28
5. Jeremiah 31:3 : Ps. 36:10
6. Jeremiah 31:3 : Hos. 11:4
7. Jeremiah 31:4 : ver. 28; ch. 33:7
8. Jeremiah 31:4 : Isa. 61:10
9. Jeremiah 31:4 : ver. 13; Ex. 15:20; Judg. 11:34; 21:21; See 2 Sam. 6:14
10. Jeremiah 31:5 : Isa. 65:21; Amos 9:14
11. Jeremiah 31:6 : See Josh. 24:33
12. Jeremiah 31:6 : Isa. 2:3; 27:13
13. Jeremiah 31:7 : Isa. 12:6; 65:18
14. Jeremiah 31:7 : Amos 6:1
15. Jeremiah 31:7 : Ps. 118:25
16. Jeremiah 31:8 : See ch. 3:18
17. Jeremiah 31:8 : See ch. 23:3
18. Jeremiah 31:8 : See ch. 6:22
19. Jeremiah 31:8 : Isa. 35:5, 6
20. Jeremiah 31:9 : ch. 50:4; [Ezra 3:13; 10:1]
21. Jeremiah 31:9 : ch. 3:21; Zech. 12:10
22. Jeremiah 31:9 : Isa. 35:6, 7; 49:10; [Ps. 23:2]
23. Jeremiah 31:9 : Isa. 35:8; 43:19; 49:11
24. Jeremiah 31:9 : Rom. 8:15
25. Jeremiah 31:9 : [Ex. 4:22; Ps. 89:27]
26. Jeremiah 31:10 : [See ver. 8 above]; See ch. 23:3
27. Jeremiah 31:10 : Isa. 40:11
28. Jeremiah 31:11 : Isa. 43:1; 44:23; 48:20
29. Jeremiah 31:11 : [Isa. 49:24, 25]
30. Jeremiah 31:12 : Isa. 2:2; Mic. 4:1
31. Jeremiah 31:12 : Hos. 3:5
32. Jeremiah 31:12 : [Deut. 12:17]
33. Jeremiah 31:12 : Isa. 58:11
34. Jeremiah 31:12 : Isa. 35:10
35. Jeremiah 31:13 : See ver. 4
36. Jeremiah 31:13 : [John 16:20]
37. Jeremiah 31:14 : [ver. 25]
38. Jeremiah 31:15 : Cited Matt. 2:18
39. Jeremiah 31:15 : Josh. 18:25
40. Jeremiah 31:15 : [Gen. 35:19, 20; 48:7; 1 Sam. 10:2]
41. Jeremiah 31:15 : ch. 10:20
42. Jeremiah 31:16 : Ezra 1:5; Hos. 1:11
43. Jeremiah 31:17 : ch. 29:11
44. Jeremiah 31:18 : [ver. 9]
45. Jeremiah 31:18 : Ps. 80:3; Lam. 5:21
46. Jeremiah 31:19 : Deut. 30:2
47. Jeremiah 31:19 : Ezek. 21:12
48. Jeremiah 31:19 : [ch. 3:25]
49. Jeremiah 31:20 : [See ver. 18 above]; [ver. 9]
50. Jeremiah 31:20 : [Prov. 8:30]
51. Jeremiah 31:20 : Song 5:4; Isa. 16:11
52. Jeremiah 31:21 : [Isa. 57:14; 62:10]
53. Jeremiah 31:21 : ch. 50:4, 5
54. Jeremiah 31:21 : [Isa. 57:14; 62:10]
55. Jeremiah 31:22 : ch. 2:18, 23, 36
56. Jeremiah 31:22 : ch. 49:4
57. Jeremiah 31:23 : See ch. 30:3
58. Jeremiah 31:23 : Ps. 122:6, 7
59. Jeremiah 31:23 : ch. 50:7; Isa. 1:26
60. Jeremiah 31:23 : Zech. 8:3
61. Jeremiah 31:24 : ch. 33:13
62. Jeremiah 31:24 : ch. 33:13
63. Jeremiah 31:25 : Ps. 36:8; [ver. 14]
64. Jeremiah 31:27 : ch. 9:25
65. Jeremiah 31:27 : Ezek. 36:11; Hos. 2:23; Zech. 10:9
66. Jeremiah 31:27 : [Ps. 22:30; Isa. 53:10]
67. Jeremiah 31:28 : ch. 44:27; [ch. 32:42]
68. Jeremiah 31:28 : [ver. 40]; See ch. 1:10
69. Jeremiah 31:28 : ch. 44:27; [ch. 32:42]
70. Jeremiah 31:28 : See ch. 24:6
71. Jeremiah 31:29 : Ezek. 18:2, 3; [Lam. 5:7]
72. Jeremiah 31:30 : Ezek. 18:4
73. Jeremiah 31:31 : ver. 31-34, cited Heb. 8:8-12
74. Jeremiah 31:31 : Luke 22:20; 2 Cor. 3:6
75. Jeremiah 31:32 : [Deut. 1:31]
76. Jeremiah 31:32 : See ch. 3:14
77. Jeremiah 31:33 : ch. 32:40; Ezek. 37:26; Cited Heb. 10:16
78. Jeremiah 31:33 : ch. 32:40; Ezek. 37:26; Cited Heb. 10:16
79. Jeremiah 31:33 : Ps. 37:31; 2 Cor. 3:3
80. Jeremiah 31:33 : Hos. 2:23; Zech. 8:8; 13:9; Rev. 21:7; See ch. 30:22
81. Jeremiah 31:34 : Isa. 54:13
82. Jeremiah 31:34 : See ch. 6:13
83. Jeremiah 31:34 : ch. 33:8; 36:3; 50:20; Mic. 7:18; Acts 10:43; Rom. 11:27; Cited Heb. 10:17
84. Jeremiah 31:34 : Isa. 43:25
85. Jeremiah 31:35 : Gen. 1:16
86. Jeremiah 31:35 : See ver. 36
87. Jeremiah 31:35 : See ch. 10:16
88. Jeremiah 31:36 : [Ps. 148:6; Isa. 54:9, 10]; For ver. 36, 37, see ch. 33:20-26
89. Jeremiah 31:37 : Rom. 11:1
90. Jeremiah 31:38 : ver. 27, 31
91. Jeremiah 31:38 : Neh. 3:1; 12:39; Zech. 14:10
92. Jeremiah 31:38 : 2 Kgs. 14:13
93. Jeremiah 31:39 : Ezek. 40:3; Zech. 1:16; 2:1, 2; [Rev. 11:1]
94. Jeremiah 31:40 : [ch. 7:31, 32]
95. Jeremiah 31:40 : See 2 Sam. 15:23
96. Jeremiah 31:40 : 2 Chr. 23:15
97. Jeremiah 31:40 : Isa. 52:1; Joel 3:17
98. Jeremiah 31:40 : [ver. 28]