Liber Ieremiae

Ieremiae, chapter 31, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 31 Vulgate

   1 In tempore illo, dicit Dominus, ero Deus universis cognationibus Israel, et ipsi erunt mihi in populum.
   2 Haec dicit Dominus: Invenit gratiam in deserto populus, qui remanserat a gladio; vadet ad requiem suam Israel".
   3 De longe Dominus apparuit mihi: "In caritate perpetua dilexi te; ideo attraxi te in misericordia.
   4 Rursumque aedificabo te, et aedificaberis, virgo Israel; adhuc ornaberis tympanis tuis et egredieris in choro ludentium.
   5 Adhuc plantabis vineas in montibus Samariae; plantabunt plantantes et vindemiabunt.
   6 Quia erit dies, in qua clamabunt custodes in monte Ephraim: "Surgite, et ascendamus in Sion ad Dominum Deum nostrum".
   7 Quia haec dicit Dominus: Exsultate in laetitia propter Iacob et hinnite capiti gentium; personate, canite et dicite: "Salva, Domine, populum tuum, reliquias Israel".
   8 Ecce ego adducam eos de terra aquilonis et congregabo eos ab extremis terrae; inter quos erunt caecus et claudus, praegnans et pariens simul: coetus magnus revertentium huc.
   9 In fletu venient, et in deprecatione reducam eos et adducam eos per torrentes aquarum in via recta, et non impingent in ea, quia factus sum Israeli pater, et Ephraim primogenitus meus est".
   10 Audite verbum Domini, gentes, et annuntiate in insulis, quae procul sunt, et dicite: "Qui dispersit Israel, congregabit eum et custodiet eum sicut pastor gregem suum".
   11 Redemit enim Dominus Iacob et liberavit eum de manu potentioris.
   12 Et venient et laudabunt in monte Sion et confluent ad bona Domini super frumento et vino et oleo et fetu pecorum et armentorum; eritque anima eorum quasi hortus irriguus, et ultra non esurient.
   13 Tunc laetabitur virgo in choro, iuvenes et senes simul." Et convertam luctum eorum in gaudium et consolabor eos et laetificabo a dolore suo.
   14 Et inebriabo animam sacerdotum pinguedine, et populus meus bonis meis adimplebitur", ait Dominus.
   15 Haec dicit Dominus: "Vox in Rama audita est lamentationis, luctus et fletus Rachel plorantis filios suos et nolentis consolari super eis, quia non sunt".
   16 Haec dicit Dominus: "Quiescat vox tua a ploratu, et oculi tui a lacrimis, quia est merces operi tuo, ait Dominus, et revertentur de terra inimici.
   17 Et est spes novissimis tuis, ait Dominus, et revertentur filii ad terminos suos.
   18 Audiens audivi Ephraim transmigrantem: "Castigasti me, et eruditus sum quasi iuvenculus indomitus; converte me, et convertar, quia tu Dominus Deus meus.
   19 Postquam enim convertisti me, egi paenitentiam; et postquam ostendisti mihi, percussi femur meum; confusus sum et erubui, quoniam sustinui opprobrium adulescentiae meae".
   20 Estne filius honorabilis mihi Ephraim aut puer delectabilis, quia ex quo locutus sum de eo, adhuc recordabor eius? Idcirco conturbata sunt viscera mea super eum: miserans miserebor eius", ait Dominus.
   21 Statue tibi lapides, pone tibi signa, dirige cor tuum in iter, viam, in qua ambulasti; revertere, virgo Israel, revertere ad civitates tuas istas.
   22 Usquequo vagaberis, filia rebellis? Quia creavit Dominus novum super terram: femina circumdabit virum.
   23 Haec dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israel: "Adhuc dicent verbum istud in terra Iudae et in urbibus eius, cum convertero sortem eorum: "Benedicat tibi Dominus, habitaculum iustitiae, mons sanctus".
   24 Et habitabunt in eo Iudas et omnes civitates eius simul, agricolae et minantes greges.
   25 Quia inebriavi animam lassam et omnem animam esurientem saturavi".
   26 Ideo quasi de somno suscitatus sum et vidi, et somnus meus dulcis mihi.
   27 "Ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus, et seminabo domum Israel et domum Iudae semine hominum et semine iumentorum.
   28 Et sicut vigilavi super eos, ut evellerem et demolirer et dissiparem et disperderem et affligerem, sic vigilabo super eos, ut aedificem et plantem, ait Dominus.
   29 In diebus illis non dicent ultra: "Patres comederunt uvam acerbam, et dentes filiorum obstupuerunt",
   30 sed unusquisque in iniquitate sua morietur; omnis homo, qui comederit uvam acerbam, obstupescent dentes eius.
   31 Ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus, et feriam domui Israel et domui Iudae pactum novum;
   32 non secundum pactum, quod pepigi cum patribus eorum in die qua apprehendi manum eorum, ut educerem eos de terra Aegypti, pactum, quod irritum fecerunt, et ego dominatus sum eorum, dicit Dominus.
   33 Sed hoc erit pactum, quod feriam cum domo Israel post dies illos, dicit Dominus: Dabo legem meam in visceribus eorum et in corde eorum scribam eam; et ero eis in Deum, et ipsi erunt mihi in populum.
   34 Et non docebit ultra vir proximum suum, et vir fratrem suum dicens: "Cognosce Dominum"; omnes enim cognoscent me, a minimo eorum usque ad maximum, ait Dominus, quia propitiabor iniquitati eorum et peccati eorum non memorabor amplius".
   35 Haec dicit Dominus, qui dat solem in lumine diei, ordinem lunae et stellarum in lumine noctis, qui turbat mare, et fremunt fluctus eius, Dominus exercituum nomen illi:
   36 "Si defecerint leges istae coram me, dicit Dominus, tunc et semen Israel deficiet, ut non sit gens coram me cunctis diebus".
   37 Haec dicit Dominus: "Si mensurari potuerint caeli sursum, et investigari fundamenta terrae deorsum, et ego abiciam universum semen Israel propter omnia, quae fecerunt, dicit Dominus.
   38 Ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus, et aedificabitur civitas Domino a turre Hananeel usque ad portam Anguli,
   39 et exibit ultra norma mensurae in conspectu eius super collem Gareb et vertetur in Goa,
   40 et omnis vallis cadaverum et cineris et universa regio usque ad torrentem Cedron et usque ad angulum portae Equorum orientalis sanctum Domini; non evelletur et non destruetur ultra in perpetuum".

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   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.
   38 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
   39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
   40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.