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because they have done a disgraceful thing in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors, and they have spoken words in my name, lies that I have not commanded them, and I am he who knows, and I am a witness,' declares Yahweh."

For look, days are coming,' declares Yahweh, ‘when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah,' says Yahweh, ‘and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors and they will take possession of it.'"

But they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

For I will present healing to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,' declares Yahweh. ‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying, "It is Zion, there is no one who cares for her."'

And thanksgiving and the sound of merrymakers will come out from them, and I will make them numerous, and they will not be few. And I will make them honored, and they will not be lowly.

"At that time," declares Yahweh, "I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be to me a people."

You will again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and they will enjoy it.

Look, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and I will gather them from the remotest part of the earth. Among them the blind, and the lame, those who are pregnant, and those who give birth, together, a great assembly, they will return here.

With weeping they will come, and with pleas for mercy I will bring them; I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path. They will not stumble in it, for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim, he is my firstborn."

And they will come, and they will sing for joy on the height of Zion, and they will be radiant over the goodness of Yahweh, over the grain, and over the wine, and over the olive oil, and over the young ones of the flock, and over the cattle. And their life will become like a well-watered garden, and they will never languish again."

Thus says Yahweh: "Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work," declares Yahweh, "and they will return from the land of the enemy.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "They will again say these words in the land of Judah and in its towns at my restoring their fortunes, ‘Yahweh bless you, O settlement of righteousness, O hill of holiness.'

"In those days they will say no longer, ‘Parents have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.'

"But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares Yahweh: "I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people.

And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh,' for all of them will know me, from their smallest and up to their greatest," declares Yahweh, "for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember."

Thus says Yahweh, "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, also I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all that they have done," declares Yahweh.

‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase, the sealed one, and this opened deed, and you must put them in an earthenware jar so that they may be kept preserved many days."

And they entered and took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice, and they did not follow your law. They did nothing of all that you commanded to them to do, and you caused to happen to them all this disaster.

And the Chaldeans, who are fighting against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and they will burn it, and the houses where they have made smoke offerings on their roofs to Baal, and where they have devoted libations to other gods, in order to provoke me to anger.

"For this city has been for me a cause of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even until this day, so I will remove it from my sight,