30:1 | This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD |
30:2 | "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says |
30:3 | The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their forefathers to possess," says the LORD."
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30:4 | These are the words the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah |
30:5 | "This is what the LORD says |
30:6 | Ask and see |
30:7 | How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.
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30:8 | ""In that day," declares the LORD Almighty, "I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them.
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30:9 | Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
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30:10 | ""So do not fear, O Jacob my servant; do not be dismayed, O Israel," declares the LORD. "I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid.
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30:11 | I am with you and will save you," declares the LORD. "Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only with justice; I will not let you go entirely unpunished."
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30:12 | "This is what the LORD says |
30:13 | There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sore, no healing for you.
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30:14 | All your allies have forgotten you; they care nothing for you. I have struck you as an enemy would and punished you as would the cruel, because your guilt is so great and your sins so many.
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30:15 | Why do you cry out over your wound, your pain that has no cure? Because of your great guilt and many sins I have done these things to you.
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30:16 | ""But all who devour you will be devoured; all your enemies will go into exile. Those who plunder you will be plundered; all who make spoil of you I will despoil.
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30:17 | But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds," declares the LORD, "because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares."
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30:18 | "This is what the LORD says |
30:19 | From them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will add to their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will bring them honor, and they will not be disdained.
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30:20 | Their children will be as in days of old, and their community will be established before me; I will punish all who oppress them.
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30:21 | Their leader will be one of their own; their ruler will arise from among them. I will bring him near and he will come close to me, for who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?" declares the LORD.
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30:22 | ""So you will be my people, and I will be your God.""
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30:23 | See, the storm of the LORD will burst out in wrath, a driving wind swirling down on the heads of the wicked.
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30:24 | The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand this.
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31:1 | "At that time," declares the LORD, "I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be my people."
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31:2 | This is what the LORD says |
31:3 | The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying |
31:4 | I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out to dance with the joyful.
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31:5 | Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit.
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31:6 | There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, "Come, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.""
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31:7 | This is what the LORD says |
31:8 | See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. Among them will be the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor; a great throng will return.
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31:9 | They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel's father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.
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31:10 | "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands |
31:11 | For the LORD will ransom Jacob and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they.
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31:12 | They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD-- the grain, the new wine and the oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.
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31:13 | Then maidens will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.
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31:14 | I will satisfy the priests with abundance, and my people will be filled with my bounty," declares the LORD.
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31:15 | This is what the LORD says |
31:16 | This is what the LORD says |
31:17 | So there is hope for your future," declares the LORD. "Your children will return to their own land.
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31:18 | "I have surely heard Ephraim's moaning |
31:19 | After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth."
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31:20 | Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him," declares the LORD.
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31:21 | "Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Take note of the highway, the road that you take. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to your towns.
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31:22 | How long will you wander, O unfaithful daughter? The LORD will create a new thing on earth-- a woman will surround a man."
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31:23 | This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says |
31:24 | People will live together in Judah and all its towns-- farmers and those who move about with their flocks.
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31:25 | I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint."
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31:26 | At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me.
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31:27 | "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will plant the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the offspring of men and of animals.
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31:28 | Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," declares the LORD.
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31:29 | "In those days people will no longer say, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."
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31:30 | Instead, everyone will die for his own sin; whoever eats sour grapes-- his own teeth will be set on edge.
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31:31 | "The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
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31:32 | It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.
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31:33 | "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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31:34 | No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, "Know the LORD," because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."
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31:35 | This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-- the LORD Almighty is his name |
31:36 | "Only if these decrees vanish from my sight," declares the LORD, "will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me."
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31:37 | This is what the LORD says |
31:38 | "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
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31:39 | The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah.
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31:40 | The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the LORD. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished."
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1:1 | Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker,
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1:2 | to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the church that meets in your home |
1:3 | Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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1:4 | I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,
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1:5 | because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.
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1:6 | I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
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1:7 | Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
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1:8 | Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do,
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1:9 | yet I appeal to you on the basis of love. I then, as Paul-- an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus--
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1:10 | I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains.
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1:11 | Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
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1:12 | I am sending him-- who is my very heart-- back to you.
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1:13 | I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel.
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1:14 | But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do will be spontaneous and not forced.
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1:15 | Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back for good--
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1:16 | no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a man and as a brother in the Lord.
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1:17 | So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me.
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1:18 | If he has done you any wrong or owes you anything, charge it to me.
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1:19 | I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will pay it back-- not to mention that you owe me your very self.
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1:20 | I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
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1:21 | Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
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1:22 | And one thing more |
1:23 | Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings.
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1:24 | And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers.
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1:25 | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
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