1At the same time, saith the Lord,
2Thus saith the Lord,
3The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying,
4Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel:
5Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria:
6For there shall be a day,
7For thus saith the Lord;
8Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
9They shall come with weeping,
10Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations,
11For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob,
12Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,
13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,
14And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
15Thus saith the Lord;
16Thus saith the Lord,
17And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord,
18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus;
19Surely after that I was turned, I repented;
20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child?
21Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps:
22How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?
23Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;
24And there shall dwell in Judah itself,
25For I have satiated the weary soul,
26Upon this I awaked, and beheld;
27Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
28And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them,
29In those days they shall say no more,
30But every one shall die for his own iniquity:
31Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;
34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying,
35Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day,
36If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord,
37Thus saith the Lord;
38Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
39And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it
40And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes,