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"Set up for yourself road markers, make for yourself signposts, set your mind to the main road, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these your cities.

How long will you waver, O unfaithful daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing on the earth, a woman, she shelters a man."

For I will saturate the thirst of the weary, and every person who languishes I will replenish."

And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh,' for all of them will know me, from their smallest and up to their greatest," declares Yahweh, "for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember."

Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for light by day, the regulations of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar—Yahweh of hosts is his name.

"Look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and the city will be rebuilt for Yahweh, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

‘Look, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your uncle, is going to come to you, saying, "Buy for yourself my field that is at Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it."'

Then Hanamel, the son of my uncle, came to me, to the courtyard of the guard according to the word of Yahweh, and he said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is at Anathoth, that is in the land of Benjamin, for to you is the claim of possession, and to you the redemption; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh.

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land."'

‘Ah Lord Yahweh! Look, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you,

who accomplished signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, up to this day, and in Israel, and among humankind, and you have made for yourself a name, as it is this day.

Yet you have said to me, Lord Yahweh, "Buy for yourself the field with the money, and call witnesses as witness," though the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'"

"Look, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for me?"

For the people of Israel and the people of Judah were doing only evil in my eyes from their youth, for the people of Israel were only provoking me to anger by the work of their hands," declares Yahweh.

"For this city has been for me a cause of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even until this day, so I will remove it from my sight,

And they will be for me a people, and I will be for them God.

And I will give to them one heart and one way, to revere me forever, for good to them, and to their children after them.

"For thus says Yahweh, ‘Just as I have brought to this people all this great disaster, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise to them.

They will buy fields with money, and they will sign the deeds, and they will seal them, and they will call witnesses as witness in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev, for I will restore their fortunes,' declares Yahweh."

For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, that were torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword: