1 At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of and they shall be my people. 2 Thus saith the Lord: The people were left and escaped from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall to his rest. 3 The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee. 4 And I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy timbrels, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. 5 Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and they shall not gather the vintage before the time. 6 For there shall be a day, in which the watchmen on mount Ephraim, shall cry: Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God. 7 For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in the joy of Jacob, and neigh before the head of the Gentiles: shout ye, and sing, and say: Save, O Lord, thy people, the remnant of Israel. 8 Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will gather them from the ends of the earth: and among them shall be the blind, and the lame, the woman with child, and she that is bringing forth, together, a great company of them returning hither. 9 They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 10 Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the islands that are afar off, and say: He that scattered Israel will gather him: and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his flock. 11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and delivered him out of the hand of one that was mightier than he. 12 And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more. 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young men and old men together: and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them joyful after their sorrow. 14 And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: and my people shall be filled with my good things, saith the Lord. 15 Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted for them, because they are not. 16 Thus saith the Lord: Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thy eyes from tears: for there is a reward for thy work, saith the Lord: and they shall return out of the land of the enemy. 17 And here is hope for thy last end, saith the Lord: and the children shall return to their own borders. 18 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God. 19 For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach of my youth. 20 Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender child: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him. Therefore are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord. 21 Set thee up a watchtower, make to thee bitterness: direct thy heart into the right way, wherein thou hast walked: return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities. 22 How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O wandering daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth: A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN. 23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As yet shall they say this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring back their captivity: The Lord bless thee, the beauty of justice, the holy mountain. 24 And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together: the husbandmen and they that drive the flocks. 25 For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled every hungry soul. 26 Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I saw, and my sleep was sweet to me. 27 Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of beasts. 28 And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord. 29 In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge. 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. 31 Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda: 32 Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord. 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. 35 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name. 36 If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me for ever. 37 Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast away all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord. 38 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hanameel even to the gate of the corner. 39 And the measuring line shall go out farther in his sight upon the hill Gareb: and it shall compass Goatha, 40 And the whole valley of dead bodies and of ashes, and all the country of death, even to the torrent Cedron, and the corner of the horse gate towards the east, the Holy of the Lord: it shall not be plucked up, and it shall not be destroyed any more for ever.
Jeremiah · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Jeremiah 31 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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Cross references (40)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 30:22; Jeremiah 30:24; Zechariah 13:9; Isaiah 41:10; Jeremiah 3:18
- 2 Psalm 95:11; Numbers 10:33; Deuteronomy 1:33; Matthew 11:28; Isaiah 63:7–14
- 3 Psalm 103:17; Isaiah 54:8–9; Hosea 11:4; Ephesians 2:4–5; Deuteronomy 33:3
- 4 Jeremiah 33:7; Jeremiah 31:13; Amos 5:2; Acts 15:16; Jeremiah 30:18–19
- 5 Amos 9:14; Micah 4:4; Isaiah 65:21–22; Leviticus 19:23–25; Deuteronomy 28:30
- 6 Jeremiah 50:4–5; Zechariah 8:20–23; Isaiah 2:2–4; Micah 4:1–3; Jeremiah 50:19
- 7 Psalm 28:9; Psalm 14:7; Isaiah 37:31; Jeremiah 23:3; Isaiah 42:10–12
- 8 Ezekiel 34:16; Isaiah 42:16; Jeremiah 23:8; Micah 4:6; Ezekiel 34:13
- 9 Exodus 4:22; Jeremiah 3:4; Jeremiah 31:20; Matthew 5:4; Jeremiah 50:4
- 10 Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:12; Deuteronomy 30:4; Isaiah 66:19; John 11:52
- 11 Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 44:23; Titus 2:14; Jeremiah 15:21; Isaiah 49:24
- 12 Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 58:11; Joel 3:18; Isaiah 65:19; Isaiah 60:20
- 13 Psalm 30:11; Isaiah 61:3; Isaiah 51:11; Isaiah 51:3; Esther 9:22
- 14 Jeremiah 31:25; 1 Peter 2:9; Jeremiah 33:9; Matthew 5:6; Revelation 7:16–17
- 15 Matthew 2:16–18; Psalm 77:2; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 10:20; Genesis 37:35
- 16 Ruth 2:12; Jeremiah 30:3; Hebrews 6:10; Hebrews 11:6; Jeremiah 33:7
- 17 Lamentations 3:21; Hosea 3:5; Lamentations 3:26; Hosea 2:15; Jeremiah 29:11–16
- 18 Jeremiah 31:9; Psalm 80:3; Job 5:17; Isaiah 9:13; Jeremiah 17:14
- 19 Jeremiah 3:25; Ezekiel 36:31; Ezekiel 21:12; Luke 18:13; Deuteronomy 30:2
- 20 Isaiah 55:7; Micah 7:18–19; Lamentations 3:31–32; Judges 10:16; Psalm 103:13
- 21 Jeremiah 50:5; Isaiah 62:10; Psalm 84:5; Jeremiah 3:14; Isaiah 52:11–12
- 22 Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 49:4; Luke 1:34–35; Matthew 1:21; Jeremiah 2:18
- 23 Zechariah 8:3; Jeremiah 50:7; Isaiah 1:26; Psalm 48:1–2; Isaiah 60:21
- 24 Zechariah 8:4–8; Ezekiel 36:10; Jeremiah 33:11–13; Zechariah 2:4
- 25 Matthew 5:6; Matthew 11:28; Psalm 107:9; John 4:14; Jeremiah 31:14
- 26 Psalm 127:2; Zechariah 4:1–2
- 27 Hosea 2:23; Zechariah 10:9; Ezekiel 36:9; Ezekiel 36:11; Jeremiah 30:19
- 28 Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 18:7–9; Jeremiah 45:4; Jeremiah 44:27
- 29 Lamentations 5:7; Ezekiel 18:2–3; Jeremiah 31:30
- 30 Ezekiel 18:20; Isaiah 3:11; Deuteronomy 24:16; Galatians 6:5; Ezekiel 18:4
- 31 Hebrews 10:16–17; Jeremiah 31:31–34; Ezekiel 37:26; Jeremiah 32:40; 2 Corinthians 3:6
- 32 Exodus 24:6–8; Deuteronomy 5:3; Deuteronomy 1:31; Exodus 19:5; John 3:29
- 33 2 Corinthians 3:3; Hebrews 10:16; Hebrews 8:10; Ezekiel 11:19–20; Jeremiah 24:7
- 34 Isaiah 43:25; Hebrews 8:12; Jeremiah 33:8; Isaiah 54:13; 1 John 2:27
- 35 Jeremiah 10:16; Isaiah 51:15; Psalm 136:7–9; Genesis 1:14–18; Jeremiah 50:34
- 36 Jeremiah 33:20–26; Psalm 89:36–37; Isaiah 54:9–10; Psalm 148:6; Jeremiah 46:28
- 37 Jeremiah 33:24–26; Isaiah 40:12; Romans 11:1–5; Jeremiah 33:22; Romans 11:26–29
- 38 Zechariah 14:10; 2 Kings 14:13; Jeremiah 30:18; 2 Chronicles 26:9; Jeremiah 31:27
- 39 Zechariah 2:1–2; Ezekiel 40:8
- 40 2 Samuel 15:23; Joel 3:17; 2 Chronicles 23:15; 2 Kings 11:16; John 18:1
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As also Jeremiah declares, "The Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and has snatched him from the hand of him that was stronger than he." If, then, he had not pointed out Him who binds and spoils his goods, but had merely spoken of him as being strong, the strong man should have been unconquered.
For Jeremiah himself says, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will complete over the house of Jacob a new testament," and the rest, which may be read there. For the present I shall put down those predictions about Christ by the prophet Zephaniah, who prophesied with Jeremiah.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
"Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not." Thus having filled the hearer with horror by relating these things: the slaughter so violent and unjust, so extremely cruel and lawless; he comforts him again, by …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
As He does Himself say in David, "I slept, and took repose." And because He used thus to act while He dwelt and lived among us, He says again, "And my sleep became sweet unto me." Now this whole matter was indicated through Lot, that the seed of the Father of all--that is, of the Spirit of God, by whom …
… Asaph, no beast is Asaph, now he seeth that which was spoken of, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will accomplish with the House of Israel and of Juda a new Testament, not after the Testament which I ordered with their Fathers." "Have regard unto Thy Testament: for they that have been darkened have been filled of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)