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

Yahweh says that at that time, he will be the God [who is worshiped by] all the clans in Israel, and they will be his people.

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 Yahweh says: “Those [people] who remained alive and were not killed by [their enemies’] swords were blessed [by me even] in the desert; I enabled them to have peace.

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 [I, ] Yahweh, said to [your ancestors, ] the Israeli people, ‘I have loved you and I will continue to love you forever. By faithfully loving you, I have brought you close to myself.’

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

And [now I tell you], my Israeli people whom I love [MET], that I will cause you to be a nation again. You will [joyfully] dance as you play your tambourines.

5 still to plant vineyard in/on/with mountain: mount Samaria to plant to plant and to profane/begin: fruit

Again you will plant your vineyards on the hills of Samaria, and you will eat the grapes [that grow there].

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

There will be a time when watchmen will call out from the hills of Samaria [MTY], ‘Come, let’s go up to Jerusalem to [worship] Yahweh, 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

And now Yahweh also says this: “Sing joyfully about [what I have done for] the people of Israel! Shout about [your nation, ] the greatest nation! Shout joyfully, praising me and saying, ‘Yahweh, rescue your people, the ones who are still alive!’

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

Do that [because] I will bring them back from the northeast, from the most distant places on the earth. Among them will be blind people and lame people, women who are pregnant and women who are (having labor pains/about to give birth to babies). They will be a huge group of people!

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 be crying as they return, and they will be praying [to me]. I will guide them along streams of water, on level paths where they will not stumble. [I will do this] because I am [like] a father to the Israeli people; [it is as though] Israel is my oldest son.”

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

Yahweh says, “[You people in the] nations of the world, listen to this message from me. Then proclaim it to [people who live along] the coasts far away. I scattered my people, but I will gather them [again] and will take care of them like [SIM] a shepherd takes care of his sheep.

11 for to ransom LORD [obj] Jacob and to redeem: redeem him from hand strong from him

I will buy [my] Israeli people back from those who [conquered them because] they were more powerful [than my people].

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

My people will return [to Jerusalem] and shout joyfully on the slopes of Zion Hill. They will rejoice about the things that I have abundantly given to them— grain and new wine and [olive] oil and young sheep and cattle. They themselves will be like a well-watered garden, and they will no longer be sad.

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 young women will dance joyfully, and [all] the men, young ones and old ones, will join with them. I will cause them to rejoice instead of mourning; I will comfort them and cause them to be happy instead of being sad.

14 and to quench soul [the] priest ashes and people my [obj] goodness my to satisfy utterance LORD

The priests will have plenty of things to eat and drink, and [all] my people will be filled with the good things that I give them. [That will certainly happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!”

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

Yahweh [also] says this: “Women were weeping in Ramah [town on the border between Israel and Judah]; they were mourning and crying very loudly. [The women who were the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh, the two grandsons of] Rachel [the wife of Jacob], were weeping about their children, and no one could comfort them because their children were [all] dead.

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

[But now] this is what [I], Yahweh, say: ‘Do not cry [any more], because I will reward you [for the good things you have done for your children]. Your children will return from the land where their enemies [have taken them].

17 and there hope to/for end your utterance LORD and to return: return son: child to/for border: area their

[I], Yahweh, am telling you that there are things that you can confidently expect [me to do for you] in the future. Your children will return to their own land.’

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

I have heard [the people of] Israel grieving very much [and saying to me], ‘You punished us severely, like [SIM] calves are beaten [by their owners to train them for pulling a plow]. [So] bring us back [to obey/worship you again], because we are ready to return to you, because you [alone] are Yahweh, our 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

We turned away [from you], but we repented; [after you] caused us to realize [that we were guilty]. We beat our chests to show that we were very ashamed [DOU] of the sins that we committed when we were 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 [I], Yahweh, say this: The Israeli people certainly are [RHQ] still my dear children [DOU]. It is often necessary for me to threaten [to punish] them, but I still love them. That is why I have not forgotten them, and I will certainly act mercifully toward them.

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 *Q(K)*) to return: return virgin Israel to return: return to(wards) city your these

[You Israeli people, ] set up road signs; put up posts [along the roads] to mark the road on which you walked [when you were taken from Jerusalem]. My precious/beloved Israeli people, come back to your towns here.

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

You people who have been like [MET] daughters who have forsaken their parents, how long will you continue to wander [away from me] [RHQ]? I, Yahweh, will cause something to happen on the earth that (is new/has not happened before): The women of Israel will be protecting their husbands as they travel [back here]!”

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 Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says: “When I bring them back from the countries to which they have been exiled, all the people from the towns in Judah will again say, [‘I hope that] Yahweh will bless this my home, the holy place where righteous [people will live]!’

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 [who live in] the towns, including the farmers and the shepherds, will all live together [peacefully].

25 for to quench soul faint and all soul to languish to fill

I will enable weary people to rest, and enable people who are very exhausted to become strong again.”

26 upon this to awake and to see: see and sleep my to please to/for me

I, [Jeremiah], woke up [after dreaming all those things], and I looked [around]. I had slept [very] delightfully!

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

[Then] Yahweh said [to me], “There will be a time when I will greatly increase [MET] the number of people and the number of livestock here 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

[Previously], I caused [their enemies to] remove the people from their land and to destroy their land and to cause them to experience many disasters [DOU]. But in the future, I will enable them to build houses and to plant crops [here in Israel again]. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.

29 in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) not to say still father to eat unripe grape and tooth son: child be blunt

[Previously the people often said, ] ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but it is the children’s teeth that ache.’ [They meant that it was not fair for them to be punished for their ancestors’ sins]. But [when I bring them back to their land], they will no longer say that.

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

But now all people will die because of the sins that they themselves have committed.

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

[I], Yahweh, say this: ‘There will be a time 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

[This new agreement will] not be like the agreement that I made with their ancestors when I took them by their hands and led them out of Egypt. They broke that agreement, even though I [loved them like] [MET] husbands love their wives.’

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

This is what I, Yahweh, say: ‘This is the new agreement that I will make with the people of Israel some day: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their inner beings. 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

And it will not be [necessary] for them to teach their neighbors or their relatives and say, “[You need to] know Yahweh,” because everyone, including unimportant people and very important people, will [already] know me. And I will forgive them for having been very wicked, and I will never think again about the sins that they have committed.’”

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

Yahweh is the one who causes the sun to give light during the day, and who causes the moon and the stars to give light during the night. He stirs up the seas, with the result that waves roar. His name is the Commander of the armies of angels, and this is what he says:

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

“I will not reject my Israeli people any more than I will get rid of the laws [that control the universe].

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

And this is what I say: ‘No one can measure the sky, and no one can find out what is supporting the earth. Similarly, I cannot reject forever the descendants of Jacob because of all the [evil] things that they have done.’ [That is certain, because] I, Yahweh, have said it!

38 behold (day to come (in): come *Q(K)*) utterance LORD and to build [the] city to/for LORD from (Hananel) Tower (Tower of) Hananel gate [the] Corner (Gate)

[I], Yahweh, also say that there will be a time when [everything in] Jerusalem will be rebuilt for me, from the tower of Hananel [at the northeast corner, west] to [the gate named] the Corner Gate.

39 and to come out: come still (line *Q(K)*) [the] measure before him upon hill Gareb and to turn: turn Goah [to]

[Workers] will stretch a measuring line/string over Gareb Hill all the way [southwest] to Goah.

40 and all [the] valley [the] corpse and [the] ashes and all ([the] field *Q(K)*) 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

And the whole area, including the place where corpses and ashes are thrown in the [Kidron] Valley, and all the fields to the east as far as the Horse Gate, will become set apart for me. And the city [of Jerusalem] will never again be captured or destroyed.”