Jeremiah 31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Jeremiah 31The Joyful Return of the Exiles

1 from far away.

I have loved you with an everlasting love;

therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

4 I will lead them back;

I will let them walk by brooks of water,

in a straight path where they shall not stumble,

for I have become a father to Israel,

and Ephraim is my firstborn.

10

I will turn their mourning into joy;

I will comfort them and give them gladness for sorrow.

14 a man.

23 Isa 1.26; Jer 30.18; 32.44; 50.7; Zech 8.3 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 towns when I restore their fortunes:

“The Lord bless you, O abode of righteousness,

O holy hill!”

24 Jer 33.12, 13 And Judah and all its towns shall live there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.

25 Mt 5.6 I will satisfy the weary,

and all who are faint I will replenish.

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

Individual Retribution

27 Ezek 36.9–11; Hos 2.23 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.

28Jer 1.10; 44.27And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.

29Ezek 18.2In those days they shall no longer say:

“The parents have eaten sour grapes,

and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”

30 Deut 24.16; Ezek 18.4, 20; Gal 6.5, 7 But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of the one who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.

A New Covenant

31 Jer 32.40; Ezek 37.26; Heb 8.8–12 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

32Ex 19.5; 24.6–8; Deut 1.31; Jer 3.14; 11.7, 8It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.

33Jer 24.7; 32.38, 40But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34Isa 54.13; Mic 7.18; Jn 6.45; Rom 11.27; 1 Thess 4.9No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.

35 Gen 1.16; Ps 19.1–6; Jer 10.16 Thus says the Lord,

who gives the sun for light by day

and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,

who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—

the Lord of hosts is his name:

36 Isa 54.9, 10; Jer 33.20; Am 9.8, 9 If this fixed order were ever to cease

from my presence, says the Lord,

then also the offspring of Israel would cease

to be a nation before me forever.

37 Jer 33.22–26 Thus says the Lord:

If the heavens above can be measured

and the foundations of the earth below can be explored,

then I will reject all the offspring of Israel

because of all they have done, says the Lord.

Jerusalem to Be Enlarged

38 2 Kings 14.13; Neh 3.1; Zech 14.10 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

39And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah.

402 Sam 15.23; 2 Kings 23.6; Jer 7.32; Joel 3.17The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes and all the fields as far as the Wadi Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the Lord. It shall never again be uprooted or overthrown.