“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love.
    Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
⁴ I will build you again,
    and you will be built, O virgin of Israel.
You will again be adorned with your tambourines,
    and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.
⁵ Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria.
    The planters will plant,
    and will enjoy its fruit.
⁶ For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry,
    ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”

“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
    and shout for the chief of the nations.
Publish, praise, and say,
    ‘Yahweh, save your people,
    the remnant of Israel!’
⁸ Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
    and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth,
along with the blind and the lame,
    the woman with child and her who travails with child together.
    They will return as a great company.
⁹ They will come with weeping.
    I will lead them with petitions.
I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters,
    in a straight way in which they won’t stumble;
for I am a father to Israel.
    Ephraim is my firstborn.

¹⁰ “Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations,
    and declare it in the distant islands. Say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
    and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’
¹¹ For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob,
    and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.
¹² They will come and sing in the height of Zion,
    and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh,
to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil,
    and to the young of the flock and of the herd.
Their soul will be as a watered garden.
    They will not sorrow any more at all.
¹³ Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance;
    the young men and the old together;
for I will turn their mourning into joy,
    and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
¹⁴ I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
    and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

“A voice is heard in Ramah,
    lamentation and bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children.
    She refuses to be comforted for her children,
    because they are no more.”

“Refrain your voice from weeping,
    and your eyes from tears;
    for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh.
    “They will come again from the land of the enemy.
¹⁷ There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh.
    “Your children will come again to their own territory.

¹⁸ “I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus,
    ‘You have chastised me,
    and I was chastised, as an untrained calf.
Turn me, and I will be turned;
    for you are Yahweh my God.
¹⁹ Surely after that I was turned.
    I repented.
After that I was instructed.
    I struck my thigh.
I was ashamed, yes, even confounded,
    because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son?
    Is he a darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
    I still earnestly remember him.
therefore my heart yearns for him.
    I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

²¹ “Set up road signs.
    Make guideposts.
Set your heart toward the highway,
    even the way by which you went.
Turn again, virgin of Israel.
    Turn again to these your cities.
²² How long will you go here and there,
    you backsliding daughter?
For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth:
    a woman will encompass a man.”

“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
    and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

³¹ “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
    “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
    and with the house of Judah:
³² not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
    which covenant of mine they broke,
    although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.
³³ “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,”
    says Yahweh:
“I will put my law in their inward parts,
    and I will write it in their heart.
I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.
³⁴ They will no longer each teach his neighbor,
    and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’
for they will all know me,
    from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh:
“for I will forgive their iniquity,
    and I will remember their sin no more.”
³⁵ Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day,
    and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,
who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar;
    Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:
³⁶ “If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh,
    “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”
³⁷ Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured,
    and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
    then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.