Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth: A WOMAN
SHALL COMPASS A MAN.
31:23. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As yet shall
they say this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when
I shall bring back their captivity: The Lord bless thee, the beauty of
justice, the holy mountain.
31:24. And Juda and all his cities shall dwell therein together: the
husbandman and they that drive the flocks.
31:25. For I have inebriated the weary soul: and I have filled every
hungry soul.
31:26. Upon this I was as it were awaked out of a sleep, and I saw, and
my sleep was sweet to me.
31:27. Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house of
Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of
beasts.
31:28. And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down,
and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to
build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord.
31:29. In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a
sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.
31:30. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that
shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31:31. Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:
31:32. Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in
the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of
Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them,
saith the Lord.
31:33. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their
bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and
they shall be my people.
31:34. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every
man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the
least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive
their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
31:35. Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day,
the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who
stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is
his name.
31:36. If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then
also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a na
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