1“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
2Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”
3Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying,
4I will build you again,
5Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria.
6For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry,
7For Yahweh says,
8Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
9They will come with weeping.
10“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations,
11For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob,
12They will come and sing in the height of Zion,
13Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance,
14I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
15Yahweh says:
16Yahweh says:
17There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh.
18“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus,
19Surely after that I was turned.
20Is Ephraim my dear son?
21“Set up road signs.
22How long will you go here and there,
23Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’
24Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.
25For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
26On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
27“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.
28It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says Yahweh.
29“In those days they will say no more,
30But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
31“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,
32not 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 covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.
33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh:
34They will no longer each teach his neighbor,
35Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day,
36“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh,
37Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured,
38“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the city will be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
39The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah.
40The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”