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Isaiah 51

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¹ For I [fully] satisfy the weary soul, and I replenish every languishing and sorrowful person."

² At this I (Jeremiah) awoke and looked, and my [trancelike] sleep was sweet [in the assurance it gave] to me.

³ Behold (listen carefully), the days are coming, says the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

⁴ It will be that as I have watched over them to uproot and to break down, to overthrow, destroy, and afflict with disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant [with good]," says the LORD.

⁵ "In those days they will not say again, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

⁶ But everyone will die [only] for his own wickedness; every man who eats sour grapes—his [own] teeth shall be set on edge.

⁷ "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the[5] house of Israel (the Northern Kingdom) and with the house of Judah (the Southern Kingdom),

⁸ not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," says the LORD.

⁹ But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD, "I will put My law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

¹⁰ And each man will no longer teach his neighbor and his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me [through personal experience], from the least of them to the greatest," says the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness, and I will no longer remember their sin."

¹¹ Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea's roaring billows or stills the waves when they roar; The LORD of hosts is His name:

¹² "If this fixed order departs From before Me," says the LORD, "Then the descendants of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever."

¹³ Thus says the LORD, "If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off and abandon all the descendants of Israel For all that they have done," says the LORD.

¹⁴ "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when the city [of Jerusalem] will be rebuilt for the LORD from the[6] Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

¹⁵ The measuring line will go out farther straight ahead to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to[7] Goah.

¹⁶ And the whole valley (Hinnom) of the dead bodies and [the hill] of the ashes [long dumped there from the temple sacrifices], and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD. It (the city) will not be uprooted or overthrown anymore to the end of the age."

¹⁷ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of[1] Nebuchadnezzar.

¹⁸ Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah.

¹⁹ For Zedekiah [the last] king of Judah had locked him up, saying, "Why do you prophesy [disaster] and say, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

²⁰ and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hand of the[2] Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;

²¹ and he will lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him [for evaluation and judgment]," says the LORD. "If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed"'?"

²² And Jeremiah [answered King Zedekiah and] said, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

²³ Behold (listen carefully), Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, "Buy my field that is in[3] Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it [in accordance with the law]."'

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1	For I [fully] satisfy the weary soul, and I replenish every languishing and sorrowful person."
2	At this I (Jeremiah) awoke and looked, and my [trancelike] sleep was sweet [in the assurance it gave] to me.
3	Behold (listen carefully), the days are coming, says the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.
4	It will be that as I have watched over them to uproot and to break down, to overthrow, destroy, and afflict with disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant [with good]," says the LORD.
5	"In those days they will not say again, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'
6	But everyone will die [only] for his own wickedness; every man who eats sour grapes—his [own] teeth shall be set on edge.
7	"Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the[5] house of Israel (the Northern Kingdom) and with the house of Judah (the Southern Kingdom),
8	not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," says the LORD.
9	But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD, "I will put My law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.
10	And each man will no longer teach his neighbor and his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me [through personal experience], from the least of them to the greatest," says the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness, and I will no longer remember their sin."
11	Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea's roaring billows or stills the waves when they roar; The LORD of hosts is His name:
12	"If this fixed order departs From before Me," says the LORD, "Then the descendants of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever."
13	Thus says the LORD, "If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off and abandon all the descendants of Israel For all that they have done," says the LORD.
14	"Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when the city [of Jerusalem] will be rebuilt for the LORD from the[6] Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
15	The measuring line will go out farther straight ahead to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to[7] Goah.
16	And the whole valley (Hinnom) of the dead bodies and [the hill] of the ashes [long dumped there from the temple sacrifices], and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD. It (the city) will not be uprooted or overthrown anymore to the end of the age."
17	The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of[1] Nebuchadnezzar.
18	Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah.
19	For Zedekiah [the last] king of Judah had locked him up, saying, "Why do you prophesy [disaster] and say, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
20	and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hand of the[2] Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;
21	and he will lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him [for evaluation and judgment]," says the LORD. "If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed"'?"
22	And Jeremiah [answered King Zedekiah and] said, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
23	Behold (listen carefully), Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, "Buy my field that is in[3] Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it [in accordance with the law]."'

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