Daily Meditation
9 They shall come
with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them:
Today’s ReadingJeremiah
Chapter 31
Hear the word of the
Lord, O ye nations…
1 At the same time,
saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall
be my people. 2 Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found
grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. 3 The
Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an
everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. 4 Again I
will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again
be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make
merry. 5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters
shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. 6 For there shall be a day,
that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up
to Zion unto the Lord our God. 7 For thus saith the Lord; Sing with gladness
for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and
say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. 8 Behold, I will bring
them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and
with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth
with child together: a great company shall return thither. 9 They shall come
with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to
walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble:
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 isles afar off, and say, He that
scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 11
For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that
was stronger than he. 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of
Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for
wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their
soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for
I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them
rejoice from their sorrow. 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with
fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.
15 Thus saith the
Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel
weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they
were not. 16 Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine
eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall
come again from the land of the enemy. 17 And there is hope in thine end, saith
the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely
heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was
chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be
turned; for thou art the Lord my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I
repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was
ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. 20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I
do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I
will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
21 Set thee up
waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the
way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy
cities. 22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the
Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
23 Thus saith the
Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land
of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity;
The Lord bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. 24 And
there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together,
husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. 25 For I have satiated the
weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. 26 Upon this I awaked,
and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27 Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of
Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to
pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down,
and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them,
to build, and to plant, saith the Lord. 29 In those days they shall say no more,
The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour
grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
and with the house of Judah: 32 not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the
land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto
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 put my law in
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and 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 they shall all know me,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will
forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus saith the
Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon
and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves
thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name: 36 if those ordinances depart from
before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being
a nation before me for ever. 37 Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be
measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also
cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord.
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