Created Friday 11 April 2014
(42) Jer.31:1, 9-11, 15, 31-37
"1 In dié tyd, spreek die HERE, sal Ek vir al die geslagte van Israel 'n God wees, en hulle sal vir My 'n volk wees. ...
9 Hulle sal kom met geween, en met smekinge sal Ek hulle lei; Ek sal hulle bring by waterstrome, op 'n gelyk pad waarop hulle nie sal struikel nie; want Ek is vir Israel 'n Vader, en Efraim is my eersgeborene. 10 Hoor die woord van die HERE, o nasies, en verkondig in die kuslande wat ver is, en sê: Hy wat Israel verstrooi het, sal hom vergader en hom bewaak soos 'n herder sy kudde. 11 Want die HERE het Jakob losgekoop en hom verlos uit die hand van hom wat sterker was as hy. ...
15 So sê die HERE: 'n Stem word gehoor in Rama, geklaag, bitter geween; Ragel ween oor haar kinders; sy weier om getroos te word oor haar kinders, omdat hulle daar nie is nie. ...
31 Kyk, daar kom dae, spreek die HERE, dat Ek met die huis van Israel en die huis van Juda 'n nuwe verbond sal sluit; 32 nie soos die verbond wat Ek met hulle vaders gesluit het op dié dag toe Ek hulle hand gegryp het om hulle uit Egipteland uit te lei nie — my verbond wat húlle verbreek het, alhoewel Ék gebieder oor hulle was, spreek die HERE. 33 Maar dit is die verbond wat Ek ná dié dae met die huis van Israel sal sluit, spreek die HERE: Ek gee my wet in hulle binneste en skrywe dit op hulle hart; en Ek sal vir hulle 'n God wees, en hulle sal vir My 'n volk wees. 34 En hulle sal nie meer elkeen sy naaste en elkeen sy broer leer nie en sê: Ken die HERE; want hulle sal My almal ken, klein en groot onder hulle, spreek die HERE; want Ek sal hulle ongeregtigheid vergewe en aan hulle sonde nie meer dink nie. 35 So sê die HERE wat die son gee tot 'n lig oordag, die ordeninge van die maan en van die sterre tot 'n lig in die nag; wat die see in beroering bring, sodat sy golwe bruis, HERE van die leërskare is sy Naam: 36 As hierdie verordeninge voor my aangesig sal wyk, spreek die HERE, dan sal die nageslag van Israel ook ophou om 'n volk te wees voor my aangesig vir altyd. 37 So sê die HERE: As die hemele daarbo gemeet en die fondamente van die aarde daaronder nagespeur kan word, dan sal Ek ook die hele nageslag van Israel verwerp weens alles wat hulle gedoen het, spreek die HERE."
" “At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people.” ...
With weeping they shall come,
and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them walk by brooks of water,
in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for I am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’
For the Lord has ransomed Jacob
and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him. ...
Thus says the Lord:
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
because they are no more.” ...
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Thus says the Lord,
who gives the sun for light by day
and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
the Lord of hosts is his name:
“If this fixed order departs
from before me, declares the Lord,
then shall the offspring of Israel cease
from being a nation before me forever.”
Thus says the Lord:
“If the heavens above can be measured,
and the foundations of the earth below can be explored,
then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel
for all that they have done,
declares the Lord.”"
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