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31"And when that happens"—GOD's Decree— "it will be plain as the sun at high noon: I'll be the God of every man, woman, and child in Israel and they shall be my very own people."H6256H5002H3068H430H4940H3478H5971 2This is the way GOD put it: "They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest,H559H3068H5971H8300H2719H4672H2580H4057H3478H1980H7280 3met God out looking for them!" GOD told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love!H3068H7200H7350H157H5769H160H2617H4900 4And so now I'll start over with you and build you up again, dear virgin Israel. You'll resume your singing, grabbing tambourines and joining the dance.H1129H1129H1330H3478H5710H8596H3318H4234H7832 5You'll go back to your old work of planting vineyards on the Samaritan hillsides, And sit back and enjoy the fruit— oh, how you'll enjoy those harvests!H5193H3754H2022H8111H5193H5193H2490 6The time's coming when watchmen will call out from the hilltops of Ephraim: 'On your feet! Let's go to Zion, go to meet our GOD!'"H3426H3117H5341H2022H669H7121H6965H5927H6726H3068H430 7Oh yes, GOD says so: "Shout for joy at the top of your lungs for Jacob! Announce the good news to the number-one nation! Raise cheers! Sing praises. Say, 'GOD has saved his people, saved the core of Israel.'H559H3068H7442H8057H3290H6670H7218H1471H8085H1984H559H3068H3467H5971H7611H3478 8"Watch what comes next: "I'll bring my people back from the north country And gather them up from the ends of the earth, gather those who've gone blind And those who are lame and limping, gather pregnant women, Even the mothers whose birth pangs have started, bring them all back, a huge crowd!H935H6828H776H6908H3411H776H5787H6455H2030H3205H3162H1419H6951H7725 9"Watch them come! They'll come weeping for joy as I take their hands and lead them, Lead them to fresh flowing brooks, lead them along smooth, uncluttered paths. Yes, it's because I'm Israel's Father and Ephraim's my firstborn son!H935H1065H8469H2986H3212H5158H4325H3477H1870H3782H1H3478H669H1060 10"Hear this, nations! GOD's Message! Broadcast this all over the world! Tell them, 'The One who scattered Israel will gather them together again. From now on he'll keep a careful eye on them, like a shepherd with his flock.'H8085H1697H3068H1471H5046H339H4801H559H2219H3478H6908H8104H7462H5739 11I, GOD, will pay a stiff ransom price for Jacob; I'll free him from the grip of the Babylonian bully.H3068H6299H3290H1350H3027H2389 12The people will climb up Zion's slopes shouting with joy, their faces beaming because of GOD's bounty— Grain and wine and oil, flocks of sheep, herds of cattle. Their lives will be like a well-watered garden, never again left to dry up.H935H7442H4791H6726H5102H2898H3068H1715H8492H3323H1121H6629H1241H5315H7302H1588H1669H3254 13Young women will dance and be happy, young men and old men will join in. I'll convert their weeping into laughter, lavishing comfort, invading their grief with joy.H1330H8055H4234H970H2205H3162H2015H60H8342H5162H8055H3015 14I'll make sure that their priests get three square meals a day and that my people have more than enough.'" GOD's Decree.H7301H5315H3548H1880H5971H7646H2898H5002H3068 15Again, GOD's Message: "Listen to this! Laments coming out of Ramah, wild and bitter weeping. It's Rachel weeping for her children, Rachel refusing all solace. Her children are gone, gone—long gone into exile."H559H3068H6963H8085H7414H5092H8563H1065H7354H1058H1121H3985H5162H1121 16But GOD says, "Stop your incessant weeping, hold back your tears. Collect wages from your grief work." GOD's Decree. "They'll be coming back home!H559H3068H4513H6963H1065H5869H1832H6468H3426H7939H5002H3068H7725H776H341 17There's hope for your children." GOD's Decree.H3426H8615H319H5002H3068H1121H7725H1366 18"I've heard the contrition of Ephraim. Yes, I've heard it clearly, saying, 'You trained me well. You broke me, a wild yearling horse, to the saddle. Now put me, trained and obedient, to use. You are my GOD.H8085H8085H669H5110H3256H3256H5695H3808H3925H7725H7725H3068H430 19After those years of running loose, I repented. After you trained me to obedience, I was ashamed of my past, my wild, unruly past. Humiliated, I beat on my chest. Will I ever live this down?'H310H7725H5162H310H3045H5606H3409H954H3637H5375H2781H5271 20"Oh! Ephraim is my dear, dear son, my child in whom I take pleasure! Every time I mention his name, my heart bursts with longing for him! Everything in me cries out for him. Softly and tenderly I wait for him." GOD's Decree.H669H3357H1121H8191H3206H1767H1696H2142H2142H4578H1993H7355H7355H5002H3068 21"Set up signposts to mark your trip home. Get a good map. Study the road conditions. The road out is the road back. Come back, dear virgin Israel, come back to your hometowns.H5324H6725H7760H8564H7896H3820H4546H1870H1980H7725H1330H3478H7725H5892 22How long will you flit here and there, indecisive? How long before you make up your fickle mind? GOD will create a new thing in this land: A transformed woman will embrace the transforming GOD!"H2559H7728H1323H3068H1254H2319H776H5347H5437H1397 23A Message from Israel's GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies: "When I've turned everything around and brought my people back, the old expressions will be heard on the streets: 'GOD bless you!' . . . 'O True Home!' . . . 'O Holy Mountain!'H559H3068H6635H430H3478H559H1697H776H3063H5892H7725H7622H3068H1288H5116H6664H2022H6944 24All Judah's people, whether in town or country, will get along just fine with each other.H3427H3063H5892H3162H406H5265H5739 25I'll refresh tired bodies; I'll restore tired souls.H7301H5889H5315H4390H1669H5315 26Just then I woke up and looked around—what a pleasant and satisfying sleep!H6974H7200H8142H6149 27"Be ready. The time's coming"—GOD's Decree—"when I will plant people and animals in Israel and Judah, just as a farmer plants seed.H3117H935H5002H3068H2232H1004H3478H1004H3063H2233H120H2233H929 28And in the same way that earlier I relentlessly pulled up and tore down, took apart and demolished, so now I am sticking with them as they start over, building and planting.H8245H5428H5422H2040H6H7489H8245H1129H5193H5002H3068 29"When that time comes you won't hear the old proverb anymore, Parents ate the green apples, their children got the stomachache.H3117H559H1H398H1155H1121H8127H6949 30"No, each person will pay for his own sin. You eat green apples, you're the one who gets sick.H376H4191H5771H120H398H1155H8127H6949 31"That's right. The time is coming when I will make a brand-new covenant with Israel and Judah.H3117H935H5002H3068H3772H2319H1285H1004H3478H1004H3063 32It won't be a repeat of the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant even though I did my part as their Master." GOD's Decree.H1285H3772H1H3117H2388H3027H3318H776H4714H1285H6565H1166H5002H3068 33"This is the brand-new covenant that I will make with Israel when the time comes. I will put my law within them—write it on their hearts!—and be their God. And they will be my people.H1285H3772H1004H3478H310H3117H5002H3068H5414H8451H7130H3789H3820H430H5971 34They will no longer go around setting up schools to teach each other about GOD. They'll know me firsthand, the dull and the bright, the smart and the slow. I'll wipe the slate clean for each of them. I'll forget they ever sinned!" GOD's Decree.H3925H376H7453H376H251H559H3045H3068H3045H6996H1419H5002H3068H5545H5771H2142H2403

If This Ordered Cosmos Ever Fell to Pieces

35GOD's Message, from the God who lights up the day with sun and brightens the night with moon and stars, Who whips the ocean into a billowy froth, whose name is GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies:H559H3068H5414H8121H216H3119H2708H3394H3556H216H3915H7280H3220H1530H1993H3068H6635H8034 36"If this ordered cosmos ever fell to pieces, fell into chaos before me"—GOD's Decree— "Then and only then might Israel fall apart and disappear as a nation before me."H2706H4185H6440H5002H3068H2233H3478H7673H1471H6440H3117 37GOD's Message: "If the skies could be measured with a yardstick and the earth explored to its core, Then and only then would I turn my back on Israel, disgusted with all they've done." GOD's Decree.H559H3068H8064H4605H4058H4146H776H2713H4295H3988H2233H3478H6213H5002H3068 38"The time is coming"—it's GOD's Decree—"when GOD's city will be rebuilt, rebuilt all the way from the Citadel of Hanamel to the Corner Gate.H3117H935H5002H3068H5892H1129H3068H4026H2606H8179H6438 39The master plan will extend west to Gareb Hill and then around to Goath.H4060H6957H6961H3318H1389H1619H5437H1601 40The whole valley to the south where incinerated corpses are dumped—a death valley if there ever was one!—and all the terraced fields out to the Brook Kidron on the east as far north as the Horse Gate will be consecrated to me as a holy place. "This city will never again be torn down or destroyed."H6010H6297H1880H7709H8309H5158H6939H6438H5483H8179H4217H6944H3068H5428H2040H5769


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