Jeremias 31

1 "At that time," says Yahweh, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people."

2 Yahweh says, "The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest."

3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying,

"Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love.

Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

4 I will build you again,

and you will be built, O virgin of Israel.

You will again be adorned with your tambourines,

and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

5 Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria.

The planters will plant,

and will enjoy its fruit.

6 For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry,

‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’"

7 For Yahweh says,

"Sing with gladness for Jacob,

and shout for the chief of the nations.

Publish, praise, and say,

‘Yahweh, save your people,

the remnant of Israel!’

8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country,

and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth,

along with the blind and the lame,

the woman with child and her who travails with child together.

They will return as a great company.

9 They will come with weeping.

I will lead them with petitions.

I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters,

in a straight way in which they won’t stumble;

for I am a father to Israel.

Ephraim is my firstborn.

10 "Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations,

and declare it in the distant islands. Say,

‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,

and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

11 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob,

and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

12 They will come and sing in the height of Zion,

and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh,

to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil,

and to the young of the flock and of the herd.

Their soul will be as a watered garden.

They will not sorrow any more at all.

13 Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance,

the young men and the old together;

for I will turn their mourning into joy,

and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,

and my people will be satisfied with my goodness," says Yahweh.

15 Yahweh says:

"A voice is heard in Ramah,

lamentation and bitter weeping,

Rachel weeping for her children.

She refuses to be comforted for her children,

because they are no more."

16 Yahweh says:

"Refrain your voice from weeping,

and your eyes from tears,

for your work will be rewarded," says Yahweh.

"They will come again from the land of the enemy.

17 There is hope for your latter end," says Yahweh.

"Your children will come again to their own territory.

18 "I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus,

‘You have chastised me,

and I was chastised, as an untrained calf.

Turn me, and I will be turned,

for you are Yahweh my God.

19 Surely after that I was turned.

I repented.

After that I was instructed.

I struck my thigh.

I was ashamed, yes, even confounded,

because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

20 Is Ephraim my dear son?

Is he a darling child?

For as often as I speak against him,

I still earnestly remember him.

Therefore my heart yearns for him.

I will surely have mercy on him," says Yahweh.

21 "Set up road signs.

Make guideposts.

Set your heart toward the highway,

even the way by which you went.

Turn again, virgin of Israel.

Turn again to these your cities.

22 How long will you go here and there,

you backsliding daughter?

For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth:

a woman will encompass a man."

23 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’ 24 Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul."

26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

27 "Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal. 28 It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," says Yahweh. 29 "In those days they will say no more,

"‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,

and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

30 But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

31 "Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "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 covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them," says Yahweh. 33 "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days," says Yahweh:

"I will put my law in their inward parts,

and I will write it in their heart.

I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.

34 They will no longer each teach his neighbor,

and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’

for they will all know me,

from their least to their greatest," says Yahweh,

"for I will forgive their iniquity,

and I will remember their sin no more."

35 Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day,

and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,

who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar—

Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

36 "If these ordinances depart from before me," says Yahweh,

"then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever."

37 Yahweh says: "If heaven above can be measured,

and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,

then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done," says Yahweh.

38 "Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that the city will be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. 39 The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah. 40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever."

Te Hokinga Harikoa mai o ngā Manene

1 "I taua wā," e ai tā Ihowā, "ka waiho ahau hei Atua mō ngā hapū katoa o Īharaira, ko rātou hoki hei iwi māku."

2 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

"Ko te iwi i toe i te hoari,

i kite i te manako ki te koraha; arā a Īharaira,

i ahau i haere atu ai ki te mea tānga manawa mōna."

3 I puta mai a Ihowā ki ahau i mua noa atu, i mea mai:

"Āe rā, he aroha pūmau tōku i aroha ai ahau ki a koe;

nā reira, te atawhai i kukume ai ahau i a koe.

4 Ka hangā anō koe e ahau, ā, ka oti koe te hanga,

e te wāhina o Īharaira.

Tērā anō koe ka whakapaipaia ki āu timipera,

ā, ka haere atu i roto i ngā kanikani a te hunga harakoa.

5 Tērā koe e whakatō anō he māra wāina

ki runga ki ngā maunga o Hamaria.

Ka whakatō ngā kaiwhakatō,

ā, ka kai i ōna hua.

6 Nō te mea tēnā anō te rā, e karanga ai ngā kaitiaki

i runga i ngā pukepuke o Ēparaima,

‘Whakatika, tātou ka haere ki runga,

ki Hiona, ki a Ihowā, ki tō tātou Atua.’ "

7 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā:

"Waiata i runga i te koa ki a Hākopa,

hāmama mō te metararahi o ngā iwi;

kōrerotia atu, whakamoemititia, mea atu,

‘E Ihowā, whakaorangia tāu iwi,

te mōrehu o Īharaira.’

8 Nanā, ka kawea mai rātou e ahau i te whenua ki te raki,

ka kohikohia mai i ngā tōpito o te whenua,

me ngā matapō, me ngā kopa,

me te wahine e hapū ana, me te wahine hoki e whakamamae ana, i ō rātou taha;

he hui nui tonu rātou e hoki mai ai ki konei.

9 Ka haere mai rātou me te tangi,

ā, ka ārahina rātou e ahau i runga i te īnoi.

Ka meinga rātou e ahau kia haere i te taha o ngā awa wai,

mā te ara tika e kore ai ō rātou waewae e tūtuki i reira;

nō te mea he pāpā ahau ki a Īharaira,

ā, ko Ēparaima tāku mātāmua.

10 "Whakarongo ki te kupu a Ihowā, e ngā iwi,

kōrerotia hoki ki ngā motu o tawhiti,

mea atu, ‘Ko te kaitītaritari o Īharaira, māna rātou e whakawhāiti,

māna rātou e tiaki, ka rite ki tā te hēpara i tāna kāhui.’

11 Kua hokona nei hoki a Hākopa e Ihowā, utua ana e ia,

tangohia mai ana i roto i te ringa o te mea i kaha rawa i a ia.

12 Nā, ka haere mai rātou ka waiata i te wāhi tiketike o Hiona,

ka rere huihui ki te pai o Ihowā,

ki te wīti, ki te wāina, ki te hinu,

ā, ki ngā kūao hipi, kūao kau:

ā, ka rite ō rātou wairua ki te kāri kua oti te whakamākūkū;

ā, ka tino mutu rawa tā rātou tangi.

13 Kātahi te wāhina ka koa ki te kanikani,

me ngā taitama ngātahi ko ngā kaumātua.

Ka meinga hoki e ahau tā rātou tangi hei koa,

ka whakamārietia rātou, ā, ka meinga rātou kia hari i ō rātou mamae.

14 Ka whakatinaia e ahau te wairua o ngā tohunga ki te ngako,

ka mākona anō tōku iwi i tōku pai,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

15 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

"I rangona he reo ki Rama,

he uhunga, he tangi, tīwerawera ana,

ko Rahera e tangi ana ki āna tamariki,

ā, kīhai i pai kia whakamārietia mō āna tamariki,

kua kāhore nei."

16 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

"Whakamutua te tangi o tōu reo,

ngā roimata hoki i ōu kanohi;

nō te mea ka whai utu tāu mahi,"

e ai tā Ihowā:

"ā, ka hoki mai anō rātou i te whenua o te hoariri.

17 Ka whai tūmanakohanga hoki tōu mutunga,"

e ai tā Ihowā:

"ā, ka hoki mai āu tamariki ki tō rātou ake rohe.

18 "He pono kua rongo ahau i a Ēparaima e tangi ana ki a ia anō, pēnei:

‘Kua pākia ahau e koe, ā, i pākia ahau,

pērā i te kūao kau kīhai i whakaakona ki te ioka.

Whakatahuritia ahau, ā, ka tahuri ahau;

ko koe nei hoki a Ihowā, tōku Atua.

19 He pono i muri i tōku tahuritanga, i rīpenetā ahau;

ā, i muri i tōku whakaakoranga i papaki ahau ki tōku hūhā.

I whakamā ahau, āe rā, i numinumi kau,

nō te mea e waha ana e ahau te ingoa kino o tōku taitamarikitanga.’

20 He tamaiti matenui ianei a Ēparaima nāku?

He tamaiti āhuareka ianei?

Nō te mea ka kōrero ana ahau i te hē mōna,

mau tonu tōku māharahara ki a ia.

Nō reira ōku whēkau i oho ai ki a ia;

he pono ka tohungia ia e ahau,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

21 "Whakatūria ake ētahi tohu ara māu;

hangā he pou waitohu.

E anga tōu ngākau ki te huanui,

ki te ara i haere ai koe.

Hoki mai, e te wāhina o Īharaira,

hoki mai anō ki ēnei pā ōu.

22 Kia pēhea te roa o tōu kōpikopiko,

e te tamāhine tāhurihuri kē?

Kua hangā hoki e Ihowā he mea hou ki runga ki te whenua –

ka karapoti te wahine i te tāne."

23 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano, a te Atua o Īharaira: "Tēnei ake ka kōrerotia anō tēnei kupu ki te whenua o Hūrā, ki ōna pā hoki, ina whakahokia mai rātou e ahau i te whakarau: ‘Kia manaaki a Ihowā i a koe, e te nohoanga o te tika, e te maunga o te tapu!’ 24 Ā, ka noho tahi a Hūrā me ōna pā katoa ki reira; te hunga ngaki i te whenua me te hunga anō e haere tahi ana me ngā kāhui. 25 Kua tino whakamākonatia hoki e ahau te wairua ruha, kua whakakīia anō ngā wairua katoa e pōuri ana."

26 I konei ka maranga ahau, ā, ka titiro; nā, he reka ki ahau tāku moe.

Te Whiunga i ia Tangata

27 "Nanā, kei te haere mai ngā rā," e ai tā Ihowā, "e whakatōkia ai e ahau te whare o Īharaira me te whare o Hūrā ki te purapura tangata, ki te purapura kararehe. 28 Nā, ka pērā i ahau i tiaki ai i a rātou i mua, he mea kia hūtia ake, kia wāhia iho, kia turakina ki raro, kia whakangaromia, kia tūkinotia; ka pērā anō tāku tiaki i a rātou, he mea kia hangā, kia whakatōkia," e ai tā Ihowā. 29 "I aua rā ka mutu tā rātou kī:

‘Kua kai ngā mātua i ngā karepe kaiota,

ā, mōniania ana ngā niho o ngā tamariki.’

30 Engari, ka mate tēnei, tēnei, i runga i tōna kino, i tōna kino; ko ngā tāngata katoa e kai ana i te karepe kaiota, ko ōna niho anō e mōniania."

He Kawenata Hou

31 "Nanā, kei te haere mai ngā rā," e ai tā Ihowā, "e whakaritea ai e ahau he kawenata hou ki te whare o Īharaira, ki te whare hoki o Hūrā. 32 E kore anō ia e rite ki te kawenata i whakaritea e ahau ki ō rātou mātua i te rā i pupuri ai ahau ki ō rātou ringa, ā, kawea mai ana rātou i te whenua o Īhipa – whakatakā ana e rātou taua kawenata āku, ahakoa i waiho ahau hei tahu mārena mā rātou," e ai tā Ihowā. 33 "Engari ko te kawenata tēnei e whakaritea e ahau ki te whare o Īharaira i muri i aua rā," e ai tā Ihowā. "Ka hoatu e ahau tāku ture ki ō rātou wāhi i roto, ka tuhituhia anō ki tō rātou ngākau; ā, ko ahau hei Atua mō rātou, ko rātou hei iwi māku. 34 I muri nei kāhore he whakaako a tētahi i tōna hoa tata, a tētahi i tōna teina, kāhore he kī atu, ‘Kia mōhio ki a Ihowā,’ ka mōhio hoki rātou katoa ki ahau, i te iti o rātou tae noa ki te mea rahi rawa," e ai tā Ihowā. "Nō te mea ka whakarērea noatia e ahau tō rātou kino, ā, heoi anō ōku mahara ki tō rātou hara."

35 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā,

nāna nei i hōmai te rā

hei whakamārama i te awatea,

me ngā tikanga o te marama, o ngā whetū,

hei whakamārama i te pō,

nāna hoki i whakatūtehu te moana,

i nganga ai ōna ngaru –

ko Ihowā o ngā mano tōna ingoa:

36 "Ki te mawehe atu ēnei tikanga

i tōku aroaro," e ai tā Ihowā,

"ko reira anō ka kore te uri o Īharaira

hei iwi i tōku aroaro ā ake ake."

37 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā:

"Mehemea e taea ana te rūri te rangi i runga,

te rapu hoki ngā tūranga o te whenua i raro,

kātahi hoki ahau ka paopao ki ngā uri katoa o Īharaira

mō ngā mea katoa kua mahia e rātou,"

e ai tā Ihowā.

Ko Hiruhārama e Whakanuia ake

38 "Nanā, kei te haere mai ngā rā," e ai tā Ihowā, "e hangā ai te pā hei mea ki a Ihowā, i te Pourewa atu o Hananēre tae noa ki te Kūwaha o te Koki. 39 Ā, ka tae tonu atu te aho rūri, tika tonu atu ki te pukepuke ki Karepe, taiāwhio tonu atu ki Koata. 40 Nā, ko te raorao katoa i ngā tūpāpaku, i ngā pungarehu, ā, ko ngā māra katoa hoki, ā tae noa ki te awa, ki Kitirono, ki te koki i te Kūwaha Hōiho whaka te rāwhiti, ka tapu katoa ki a Ihowā. E kore e hūtia ake, e kore anō e wāhia iho ā ake ake."