Yeremya 38

¹"O zamanda," der Rab, "İsrail soyunun Tanrısı olacağım, onlar da benim halkım olacak."

²Rab şöyle diyor: "Kılıçtan kurtulup çölde kalanlar sıcaklık buldu; yürüyün ve İsrail'i yok etmeyin."

³Rab ona uzaktan göründü: "Seni sonsuz bir sevgiyle sevdim, bu yüzden seni merhamete çektim."

⁴"Seni yeniden inşa edeceğim ve inşa edileceksin, ey İsrail bakiresi! Yine tefini alacaksın ve şenlik yapanların topluluğuyla dışarı çıkacaksın."

⁵"Yine Samiriye dağlarında bağlar dikin; dikin ve şükredin."

⁶"Çünkü Efrayim dağlarında kendilerini savunanların, 'Kalkın, Tanrımız Rab'be, Siyon'a çıkalım!' diye sesleneceği çağrı günü gelecektir."

⁷Çünkü Rab Yakup için şöyle diyor: "Sevinçle haykırın ve ulusların başı üzerine coşkuyla ses çıkarın! Duyurun, şükredin ve şöyle deyin: 'Rab halkını, İsrail'den geriye kalanları kurtardı!'"

⁸"İşte, onları kuzeyden getiriyorum ve onları Fısıh bayramında yeryüzünün ucundan toplayacağım; büyük bir kalabalık çocuk doğuracak ve buraya dönecekler."

⁹"Ağlayarak gittiler, ama onları teselli ederek, su kanallarının kenarında, şaşırmayacakları doğru bir yolda konaklatarak geri getireceğim. Çünkü ben İsrail'e baba oldum, Efrayim de benim ilk oğlumdur."

¹⁰"Ey uluslar, Rab'bin sözlerini dinleyin ve bunu uzaktaki adalara duyurun; deyin ki: 'İsrail'i savuran onu toplayacak ve sürüsünü güden bir çoban gibi onu koruyacak.'"

¹¹"Çünkü Rab Yakup'u fidyeyle kurtardı, onu kendisinden daha güçlü olanların elinden çekip aldı."

¹²"Gelecekler ve Siyon dağında sevinçle haykıracaklar; Rab'bin iyiliğine, tahıl, şarap, meyve, sığır ve koyun ülkesine akın edecekler. Canları bol meyveli bir ağaç gibi olacak ve artık hiç acıkmayacaklar."

¹³"O zaman genç kızlar gençlerin topluluğunda sevinecek, yaşlılar da coşacak; onların yasını sevince dönüştüreceğim, onları teselli edip sevindireceğim."

¹⁴"Levi oğulları olan kâhinlerin canını bollukla doyuracağım ve halkım benim iyiliğimle doyacak."

¹⁵Rab şöyle diyor: "Rama'da bir ses duyuldu; ağıt, ağlayış ve acı feryat! Rahel çocukları için ağlıyor, susmak istemiyor, çünkü onlar artık yok."

¹⁶Rab şöyle diyor: "Sesini ağlamaktan, gözlerini yaş dökmekten alıkoy; çünkü emeğinin karşılığı vardır ve onlar düşman ülkesinden geri dönecekler."

¹⁷"Çocukların için kalıcı bir umut vardır."

¹⁸"Efrayim'in şöyle dövünerek ağladığını işittim: 'Beni yola getirdin ve ben yola geldim, eğitilmemiş bir buzağı gibiydim; beni geri döndür ki döneyim, çünkü sen Tanrım Rab'sin.'"

¹⁹"Çünkü tutsaklığımın ardından tövbe ettim ve gerçeği anladıktan sonra utanç günlerim için inledim; gençliğimin ayıbını taşıdığımı sana gösterdim."

²⁰"Efrayim benim sevgili oğlum, keyif süren bir çocuk mudur? Çünkü ona karşı her konuşmamda onu hâlâ sevgiyle anıyorum; bu yüzden onun için acele ettim, ona kesinlikle merhamet edeceğim," der Rab.

²¹"Kendine işaret direkleri dik Siyon, bir ceza gerçekleştir, kalbini omuzlarına koy. Geri dön ey İsrail bakiresi, yas tutarak kentlerine geri dön!"

²²"Ne zamana dek yüz çevireceksin, ey onursuzlaştırılmış kız? Çünkü Rab yeni bir dikim için kurtuluş yarattı; insanlar kurtuluş içinde yürüyecekler."

²³Çünkü Rab şöyle diyor: "Onların tutsaklığını geri döndürdüğümde, Yahuda ülkesinde ve kentlerinde şu sözü yine söyleyecekler: 'Rab kutsanmıştır, ey doğru dağ, ey kutsal dağ!'"

²⁴"Yahuda kentlerinde ve onun bütün toprağında oturanlar, çiftçilerle birlikte yaşayacaklar ve sürülerle birlikte yola çıkacaklar."

²⁵"Çünkü susamış her canı suya doyurdum ve aç olan her canı doyurdum."

²⁶Bunun üzerine uyandım ve baktım; uykum bana pek tatlı gelmişti.

²⁷"İşte, günler geliyor," der Rab, "İsrail evini ve Yahuda evini insan tohumuyla ve hayvan tohumuyla ekeceğim."

²⁸"Ve onları yıkmak, hırpalamak ve kötülük etmek için nasıl üzerlerinde göz kulak olduysam, onları bina etmek ve dikmek için de üzerlerinde öylece göz kulak olacağım," der Rab.

²⁹"O günlerde artık şöyle demeyecekler: 'Babalar koruk yedi, çocukların dişleri kamaştı.'"

³⁰"Ancak herkes kendi günahı yüzünden ölecek; koruğu kim yerse, onun dişleri kamaşacak."

³¹"İşte, günler geliyor," der Rab, "İsrail eviyle ve Yahuda eviyle yeni bir antlaşma yapacağım."

³²"Mısır ülkesinden çıkarmak için ellerinden tuttuğum gün babalarıyla yaptığım antlaşma gibi değil; çünkü onlar antlaşmama bağlı kalmadılar, ben de onları ihmal ettim," der Rab.

³³"Çünkü o günlerden sonra İsrail eviyle yapacağım antlaşma şudur," der Rab: "Yasalarımı onların zihnine vereceğim ve onları yüreklerine yazacağım; ben onların Tanrısı olacağım, onlar da benim halkım olacak."

³⁴"Artık hiç kimse yurttaşına ya da kardeşine, 'Rab'bi tanı!' diye öğretmeyecek; çünkü küçüğünden büyüğüne kadar hepsi beni tanıyacak. Çünkü onların haksızlıklarını bağışlayacağım ve günahlarını artık anmayacağım."

³⁵"Eğer yukarıda gökler ölçülebilirse ve aşağıda yerin temelleri araştırılıp bulunabilirse, ben de yaptıkları her şey yüzünden İsrail soyunu reddederim," der Rab.

³⁶Gündüzün ışık olsun diye güneşi, gecenin ışık olsun diye ayı ve yıldızları veren, denizde bir çığlık koparıp dalgalarını gürleten Rab şöyle diyor —O'nun adı Her Şeye Gücü Yeten Rab'dir—:

³⁷"Eğer bu yasalar huzurumdan kalkarsa," der Rab, "İsrail soyu da huzurumda sonsuza dek bir ulus olmaktan çıkar."

³⁸"İşte, günler geliyor," der Rab, "kent Hananeel Kulesi'nden Köşe Kapısı'na dek Rab için yeniden kurulacak."

³⁹"Ölçü ipi onların karşısından Gareb tepelerine kadar uzanacak ve seçme taşlardan bir duvarla çepeçevre kuşatılacak."

⁴⁰"Ve bütün Asaremoth, Kidron Vadisi'ne ve doğudaki At Kapısı'nın köşesine kadar olan yerler Rab için kutsal olacak; artık sonsuza dek bir daha sökülmeyecek ve yıkılmayacak."

¹(Μασ. ΛΑ´) ΕΝ τῷ χρόνῳ ἐκείνῳ, εἶπε Κύριος, ἔσομαι εἰς Θεὸν τῷ γένει ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαόν.

²οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος· εὗρον θερμὸν ἐν ἐρήμῳ μετὰ ὀλωλότων ἐν μαχαίρᾳ· βαδίσατε καὶ μὴ ὀλέσητε τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ.

³Κύριος πόρρωθεν ὤφθη αὐτῷ· ἀγάπησιν αἰώνιον ἠγάπησά σε, διὰ τοῦτο εἵλκυσά σε εἰς οἰκτείρημα.

⁴ἔτι οἰκοδομήσω σε, καὶ οἰκοδομηθήσῃ, παρθένος ᾿Ισραήλ· ἔτι λήψῃ τύμπανόν σου καὶ ἐξελεύσῃ μετὰ συναγωγῆς παιζόντων.

⁵ἔτι φυτεύσατε ἀμπελῶνας ἐν ὄρεσι Σαμαρείας, φυτεύσατε καὶ αἰνέσατε.

⁶ὅτι ἐστὶν ἡμέρα κλήσεως ἀπολογουμένων ἐν ὄρεσιν ᾿Εφραίμ· ἀνάστητε καὶ ἀνάβητε εἰς Σιὼν πρὸς Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν ἡμῶν.

⁷ὅτι οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος τῷ ᾿Ιακώβ· εὐφράνθητε καὶ χρεμετίσατε ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν ἐθνῶν· ἀκουστὰ ποιήσατε καὶ αἰνέσατε· εἴπατε· ἔσωσε Κύριος τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, τὸ κατάλοιπον τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ.

⁸ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἄγω αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ βορρᾶ καὶ συνάξω αὐτοὺς ἀπ’ ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς ἐν ἑορτῇ φασέκ· καὶ τεκνοποιήσει ὄχλον πολύν, καὶ ἀποστρέψουσιν ὧδε.

⁹ἐν κλαυθμῷ ἐξῆλθον, καὶ ἐν παρακλήσει ἀνάξω αὐτοὺς αὐλίζων ἐπὶ διώρυγας ὑδάτων ἐν ὁδῷ ὀρθῇ, καὶ οὐ μὴ πλανηθῶσιν ἐν αὐτῇ· ὅτι ἐγενόμην τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ εἰς πατέρα, καὶ ᾿Εφραὶμ πρωτότοκός μού ἐστιν.

¹⁰᾿Ακούσατε λόγους Κυρίου, ἔθνη, καὶ ἀναγγείλατε εἰς νήσους τὰς μακρόθεν· εἴπατε· ὁ λικμήσας τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ συνάξει αὐτὸν καὶ φυλάξει αὐτὸν ὡς ὁ βόσκων ποίμνιον αὐτοῦ.

¹¹ὅτι ἐλυτρώσατο Κύριος τὸν ᾿Ιακώβ, ἐξείλατο αὐτὸν ἐκ χειρὸς στερεωτέρων αὐτοῦ.

¹²καὶ ἥξουσι καὶ εὐφρανθήσονται ἐν τῷ ὄρει Σιών· καὶ ἥξουσιν ἐπ’ ἀγαθὰ Κυρίου, ἐπὶ γῆν σίτου καὶ οἴνου καὶ καρπῶν καὶ κτηνῶν καὶ προβάτων, καὶ ἔσται ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτῶν ὥσπερ ξύλον ἔγκαρπον. καὶ οὐ πεινάσουσιν ἔτι.

¹³τότε χαρήσονται παρθένοι ἐν συναγωγῇ νεανίσκων, καὶ πρεσβύται χαρήσονται, καὶ στρέψω τὸ πένθος αὐτῶν εἰς χαρμονὴν καὶ ποιήσω αὐτοὺς εὐφραινομένους.

¹⁴μεγαλυνῶ καὶ μεθύσω τὴν ψυχὴν τῶν ἱερέων υἱῶν Λευί, καὶ ὁ λαός μου τῶν ἀγαθῶν μου ἐμπλησθήσεται.

¹⁵οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος· φωνὴ ἐν Ῥαμᾷ ἠκούσθη θρήνου καὶ κλαυθμοῦ καὶ ὀδυρμοῦ· Ῥαχὴλ ἀποκλαιομένη οὐκ ἤθελε παύσασθαι ἐπὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτῆς, ὅτι οὐκ εἰσίν.

¹⁶οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος· διαλειπέτω ἡ φωνή σου ἀπὸ κλαυθμοῦ καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου ἀπὸ δακρύων σου, ὅτι ἔστι μισθὸς τοῖς σοῖς ἔργοις, καὶ ἐπιστρέψουσιν ἐκ γῆς ἐχθρῶν,

¹⁷μόνιμον τοῖς σοῖς τέκνοις.

¹⁸ἀκοὴν ἤκουσα ᾿Εφραὶμ ὀδυρομένου· ἐπαίδευσάς με καὶ ἐπαιδεύθην ἐγώ· ὥσπερ μόσχος οὐκ ἐδιδάχθην· ἐπίστρεψόν με, καὶ ἐπιστρέψω, ὅτι σὺ Κύριος ὁ Θεός μου.

¹⁹ὅτι ὕστερον αἰχμαλωσίας μου μετενόησα καὶ ὕστερον τοῦ γνῶναί με ἐστέναξα ἐφ’ ἡμέρας αἰσχύνης καὶ ὑπέδειξά σοι, ὅτι ἔλαβον ὀνειδισμὸν ἐκ νεότητός μου.

²⁰υἱὸς ἀγαπητὸς ᾿Εφραὶμ ἐμοί, παιδίον ἐντρυφῶν, ὅτι ἀνθ’ ὧν οἱ λόγοι μου ἐν αὐτῷ, μνείᾳ μνησθήσομαι αὐτοῦ· διὰ τοῦτο ἔσπευσα ἐπ’ αὐτῷ, ἐλεῶν ἐλεήσω αὐτόν, φησὶ Κύριος.

²¹Στῆσον σεαυτὴν Σιών, ποίησον τιμωρίαν, δὸς καρδίαν σου εἰς τοὺς ὤμους· ὁδὸν ᾗ ἐπορεύθης ἀποστράφητι, παρθένος ᾿Ισραήλ, ἀποστράφητι εἰς τὰς πόλεις σου πενθοῦσα.

²²ἕως πότε ἀποστρέψεις, θυγάτηρ ἠτιμωμένη; ὅτι ἔκτισε Κύριος σωτηρίαν εἰς καταφύτευσιν καινήν, ἐν σωτηρίᾳ περιελεύσονται ἄνθρωποι.

²³ὅτι οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος· ἔτι ἐροῦσι τὸν λόγον τοῦτον ἐν γῇ ᾿Ιούδα καὶ ἐν πόλεσιν αὐτοῦ, ὅταν ἀποστρέψω τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν αὐτοῦ· εὐλογημένος Κύριος ἐπὶ δίκαιον ὄρος τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ

²⁴καὶ ἐνοικοῦντες ἐν ταῖς πόλεσιν ᾿Ιούδα καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ αὐτοῦ ἅμα γεωργῷ, καὶ ἀρθήσεται ἐν ποιμνίῳ.

²⁵ὅτι ἐμέθυσα πᾶσαν ψυχὴν διψῶσαν καὶ πᾶσαν ψυχὴν πεινῶσαν ἐνέπλησα.

²⁶διὰ τοῦτο ἐξηγέρθην καὶ εἶδον, καὶ ὁ ὕπνος μου ἡδύς μοι ἐγενήθη.

²⁷διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, φησὶ Κύριος, καὶ σπερῶ τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ τὸν ᾿Ιούδαν σπέρμα ἀνθρώπου καὶ σπέρμα κτήνους.

²⁸καὶ ἔσται ὥσπερ ἐγρηγόρουν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς καθαιρεῖν καὶ κακοῦν, οὕτως γρηγορήσω ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς τοῦ οἰκοδομεῖν καὶ καταφυτεύειν, φησὶ Κύριος.

²⁹ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις οὐ μὴ εἴπωσιν· οἱ πατέρες ἔφαγον ὄμφακα, καὶ οἱ ὀδόντες τῶν τέκνων ᾑμωδίασαν.

³⁰ἀλλ’ ἢ ἕκαστος ἐν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτίᾳ ἀποθανεῖται, καὶ τοῦ φαγόντος τὸν ὄμφακα αἱμωδιάσουσιν οἱ ὀδόντες αὐτοῦ.

³¹ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, φησὶ Κύριος, καὶ διαθήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ τῷ οἴκῳ ᾿Ιούδα διαθήκην καινήν,

³²οὐ κατὰ τὴν διαθήκην, ἣν διεθέμην τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπιλαβομένου μου τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν ἐξαγαγεῖν αὐτοὺς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, ὅτι αὐτοὶ οὐκ ἐνέμειναν ἐν τῇ διαθήκῃ μου, καὶ ἐγὼ ἠμέλησα αὐτῶν, φησὶ Κύριος.

³³ὅτι αὕτη ἡ διαθήκη μου, ἣν διαθήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ ᾿Ισραὴλ μετὰ τὰς ἡμέρας ἐκείνας, φησὶ Κύριος· διδοὺς δώσω νόμους εἰς τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπὶ καρδίας αὐτῶν γράψω αὐτούς· καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς εἰς Θεόν, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαόν.

³⁴καὶ οὐ μὴ διδάξωσιν ἕκαστος τὸν πολίτην αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕκαστος τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ λέγων· γνῶθι τὸν Κύριον· ὅτι πάντες εἰδήσουσί με ἀπὸ μικροῦ αὐτῶν ἕως μεγάλου αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἵλεως ἔσομαι ταῖς ἀδικίαις αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν οὐ μὴ μνησθῶ ἔτι. -

³⁵᾿Εὰν ὑψωθῇ ὁ οὐρανὸς εἰς τὸ μετέωρον, φησὶ Κύριος, καὶ ἐὰν ταπεινωθῇ τὸ ἔδαφος τῆς γῆς κάτω, καὶ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀποδοκιμῶ τὸ γένος ᾿Ισραήλ, φησὶ Κύριος, περὶ πάντων, ὧν ἐποίησαν.

³⁶οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος ὁ δοὺς τὸν ἥλιον εἰς φῶς τῆς ἡμέρας, σελήνην καὶ ἀστέρας εἰς φῶς τῆς νυκτός, καὶ κραυγὴν ἐν θαλάσσῃ καὶ ἐβόμβησε τὰ κύματα αὐτῆς, Κύριος παντοκράτωρ ὄνομα αὐτῷ·

³⁷ἐὰν παύσωνται οἱ νόμοι οὗτοι ἀπὸ προσώπου μου, φησὶ Κύριος, καὶ τὸ γένος ᾿Ισραὴλ παύσεται γενέσθαι ἔθνος κατὰ πρόσωπόν μου πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας.

³⁸ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, φησὶ Κύριος, καὶ οἰκοδομηθήσεται πόλις τῷ Κυρίῳ ἀπὸ πύργου ᾿Αναμεὴλ ἕως πύλης τῆς γωνίας·

³⁹καὶ ἐξελεύσεται ἡ διαμέτρησις αὐτῆς ἀπέναντι αὐτῶν ἕως βουνῶν Γαρὴβ καὶ περικυκλωθήσεται κύκλῳ ἐξ ἐκλεκτῶν λίθων·

⁴⁰καὶ πάντες ᾿Ασαρημὼθ ἕως Ναχὰλ Κέδρων, ἕως γωνίας πύλης ἵππων ἀνατολῆς ἁγίασμα τῷ Κυρίῳ, καὶ οὐκέτι οὐ μὴ ἐκλίπῃ καὶ οὐ μὴ καθαιρεθῇ ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος.

¹At that time, saith the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people.

²Thus saith the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go ye and destroy not Israel.

³The Lord appeared to him from afar, [saying], I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee in compassion.

⁴For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.

⁵For ye have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant ye, and praise.

⁶For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, [saying], Arise ye, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.

⁷For thus saith the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice ye, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise ye: say, The Lord has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel.

⁸Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and [the people] shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.

⁹They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

¹⁰Hear the words of the Lord, ye nations, and proclaim [them] to the islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock.

¹¹For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of them [that were] stronger than he.

¹²And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Sion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, [even] to a land of corn, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more.

¹³Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.

¹⁴I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests the sons of Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good things: thus saith the Lord.

¹⁵A voice was heard in Rama, of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing; Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not.

¹⁶Thus saith the Lord; Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thine eyes from thy tears: for their is a reward for thy works; and they shall return from the land of [thine] enemies.

¹⁷[There shall be] an abiding [home] for thy children.

¹⁸I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly] taught: turn thou me, and I shall turn; for thou [art] the Lord my God.

¹⁹For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and shewed thee that I bore reproach from my youth.

²⁰Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste [to help] him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

²¹Prepare thyself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to thy ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which thou wentest, return mourning to thy cities.

²²How long, O disgraced daughter, wilt thou turn away? for the Lord has created safety for a new plantation: men shall go about in safety.

²³For thus saith the Lord; They shall yet speak this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn his captivity; blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy mountain!

²⁴And there shall be dwellers in the cities of Juda, and in all his land, together with the husbandman, and [the shepherd] shall go forth with the flock.

²⁵For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul.

²⁶Therefore I awake, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.

²⁷Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of man, and the seed of beast.

²⁸And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

²⁹In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children’s teeth were set on edge.

³⁰But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge.

³¹Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:

³²not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith the Lord.

³³For this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will surely put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

³⁴And they shall not at all teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.

³⁵Thus saith the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and [makes] a roaring in the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name:

³⁶if these ordinances cease from before me, saith the Lord, then shall the family of Israel cease to be a nation before me forever.

³⁷Though the sky should be raised to a [greater] height, saith the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk [lower] beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that they have done.

³⁸Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Anameel to the gate of the corner.

³⁹And the measurement of it shall proceed in front of them as far as the hills of Gareb, and it shall be compassed with a circular wall of choice stones.

⁴⁰And all the Asaremoth even to Nachal Kedron, as far as the corner of the horse-gate eastward, shall be holiness to the Lord; and it shall not fail any more, and shall not be destroyed for ever.