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14 And I will saturate the appetite of the priests with fatness,
    and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” declares[a] Yahweh.
15 Thus says Yahweh,
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
    lamentation, the weeping of bitterness.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
    she refuses to be comforted because of her children,
    for they are no more.”

16 Thus says Yahweh:

“Restrain your voice from weeping,
    and your eyes from tears,
for there is a reward for your work,” declares[b] Yahweh,
    “and they will return from the land of the enemy.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:14 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 31:16 Literally “a declaration of”