1 في ذلك الزمان يقول الرب اكون الها لكل عشائر اسرائيل وهم يكونون لي شعبا.2 هكذا قال الرب. قد وجد نعمة في البرية الشعب الباقي عن السيف اسرائيل حين سرت لاريحه.3 تراءى لي الرب من بعيد. ومحبة ابدية احببتك من اجل ذلك ادمت لك الرحمة.4 سابنيك بعد فتبنين يا عذراء اسرائيل. تتزينين بعد بدفوفك وتخرجين في رقص اللاعبين.5 تغرسين بعد كروما في جبال السامرة. يغرس الغارسون ويبتكرون.6 لانه يكون يوم ينادي فيه النواطير في جبال افرايم قوموا فنصعد الى صهيون الى الرب الهنا.7 لانه هكذا قال الرب. رنموا ليعقوب فرحا واهتفوا براس الشعوب. سمعوا سبحوا وقولوا خلص يا رب شعبك بقية اسرائيل.8 هانذا آتي بهم من ارض الشمال واجمعهم من اطراف الارض. بينهم الاعمى والاعرج الحبلى والماخض معا. جمع عظيم يرجع الى هنا.9 بالبكاء يأتون وبالتضرعات اقودهم. اسيّرهم الى انهار ماء في طريق مستقيمة لا يعثرون فيها. لاني صرت لاسرائيل ابا وافرايم هو بكري10 اسمعوا كلمة الرب ايها الامم واخبروا في الجزائر البعيدة وقولوا مبدد اسرائيل يجمعه ويحرسه كراع قطيعه.11 لان الرب فدى يعقوب وفكه من يد الذي هو اقوى منه.12 فياتون ويرنمون في مرتفع صهيون ويجرون الى جود الرب على الحنطة وعلى الخمر وعلى الزيت وعلى ابناء الغنم والبقر. وتكون نفسهم كجنة ريا ولا يعودون يذوبون بعد.13 حينئذ تفرح العذراء بالرقص والشبان والشيوخ معا واحول نوحهم الى طرب واعزيهم وافرحهم من حزنهم.14 واروي نفس الكهنة من الدسم ويشبع شعبي من جودي يقول الرب15 هكذا قال الرب. صوت سمع في الرامة نوح بكاء مرّ. راحيل تبكي على اولادها وتأبى ان تتعزى عن اولادها لانهم ليسوا بموجودين.16 هكذا قال الرب. امنعي صوتك عن البكاء وعينيك عن الدموع لانه يوجد جزاء لعملك يقول الرب. فيرجعون من ارض العدو.17 ويوجد رجاء لآخرتك يقول الرب. فيرجع الابناء الى تخمهم18 سمعا سمعت افرايم ينتحب. ادبتني فتأدبت كعجل غير مروض. توبني فأتوب لانك انت الرب الهي.19 لاني بعد رجوعي ندمت وبعد تعلمي صفقت على فخذي. خزيت وخجلت لاني قد حملت عار صباي.20 هل افرايم ابن عزيز لديّ او ولد مسرّ. لاني كلما تكلمت به اذكره بعد ذكرا. من اجل ذلك حنّت احشائي اليه. رحمة ارحمه يقول الرب21 انصبي لنفسك صوى. اجعلي لنفسك انصابا. اجعلي قلبك نحو السكة الطريق التي ذهبت فيها. ارجعي يا عذراء اسرائيل ارجعي الى مدنك هذه22 حتى متى تطوفين ايتها البنت المرتدة. لان الرب قد خلق شيئا حديثا في الارض. انثى تحيط برجل.23 هكذا قال رب الجنود اله اسرائيل. سيقولون بعد هذه الكلمة في ارض يهوذا وفي مدنها عندما ارد سبيهم. يباركك الرب يا مسكن البر يا ايها الجبل المقدس.24 فيسكن فيه يهوذا وكل مدنه معا الفلاحون والذين يسرحون القطعان25 لاني ارويت النفس المعيية وملأت كل نفس ذائبة.26 على ذلك استيقظت ونظرت ولذّ لي نومي27 ها ايام تأتي يقول الرب وازرع بيت اسرائيل وبيت يهوذا بزرع انسان وزرع حيوان.28 ويكون كما سهرت عليهم للاقتلاع والهدم والقرض والاهلاك والاذى كذلك اسهر عليهم للبناء والغرس يقول الرب.29 في تلك الايام لا يقولون بعد الآباء اكلوا حصرما واسنان الابناء ضرست.30 بل كل واحد يموت بذنبه كل انسان ياكل الحصرم تضرس اسنانه31 ها ايام تأتي يقول الرب واقطع مع بيت اسرائيل ومع بيت يهوذا عهدا جديدا.32 ليس كالعهد الذي قطعته مع آبائهم يوم امسكتهم بيدهم لاخرجهم من ارض مصر حين نقضوا عهدي فرفضتهم يقول الرب.33 بل هذا هو العهد الذي اقطعه مع بيت اسرائيل بعد تلك الايام يقول الرب. اجعل شريعتي في داخلهم واكتبها على قلوبهم واكون لهم الها وهم يكونون لي شعبا.34 ولا يعلّمون بعد كل واحد صاحبه وكل واحد اخاه قائلين اعرفوا الرب لانهم كلهم سيعرفونني من صغيرهم الى كبيرهم يقول الرب. لاني اصفح عن اثمهم ولا اذكر خطيتهم بعد35 هكذا قال الرب الجاعل الشمس للاضاءة نهارا وفرائض القمر والنجوم للاضاءة ليلا الزاجر البحر حين تعجّ امواجه رب الجنود اسمه.36 ان كانت هذه الفرائض تزول من امامي يقول الرب فان نسل اسرائيل ايضا يكف من ان يكون امة امامي كل الايام.37 هكذا قال الرب ان كانت السموات تقاس من فوق وتفحص اساسات الارض من اسفل فاني انا ايضا ارفض كل نسل اسرائيل من اجل كل ما عملوا يقول الرب38 ها ايام تأتي يقول الرب وتبنى المدينة للرب من برج حننئيل الى باب الزاوية39 ويخرج بعد خيط القياس مقابله على اكمة جارب ويستدير الى جوعة.40 ويكون كل وادي الجثث والرماد وكل الحقول الى وادي قدرون الى زاوية باب الخيل شرقا قدسا للرب. لا تقلع ولا تهدم الى الابد

1 At the same time, said the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.2 Thus said 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 has appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.5 You shall yet plant vines on 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 on the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion to the LORD our God.7 For thus said the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, O LORD, save your 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 travails 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 you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.11 For the LORD has 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, said the LORD.15 Thus said 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 said the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, said the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.17 And there is hope in your end, said the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, 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 spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy on him, said the LORD.21 Set you up markers, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.23 Thus said 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 you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, farmers, and they that go forth with flocks.25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.26 On this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.27 Behold, the days come, said 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, said the LORD.29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children' teeth are set on edge.30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.31 Behold, the days come, said 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 broke, although I was an husband to them, said the LORD:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, said 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 neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, said the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.35 Thus said the LORD, which gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:36 If those ordinances depart from before me, said the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.37 Thus said 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, said the LORD.38 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the corner.39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it on 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 to the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.