¹ This is the word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:

² Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the words that I have spoken to thee, in a book.

³ For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

⁴ And these are the words that the Lord hath spoken to Israel and to Juda:

⁵ For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror : there is fear and no peace.

⁶ Ask ye, and see if a man bear children ? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow?

⁷ Alas, for that day is great, neither is there the like to it; and it Is the time of tribulation to Jacob, but he shall be saved out of it.

⁸ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst his bands: and strangers shall no more rule over him:

⁹ But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

¹⁰ Therefore fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from a country afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity: and Jacob shall return, and be at rest, and abound with all good things, and there shall be none whom he may fear:

¹¹ For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will utterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but I will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment, that thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.

¹² For thus saith the Lord: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is very grievous.

¹³ There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up : thou hast no healing medicines.

¹⁴ All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with a cruel chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened.

¹⁵ Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow is incurable: for the multitude of thy iniquity, and for thy hardened sins I have done these things to thee.

¹⁶ Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured: and all thy enemies shall be carried into captivity : and they that waste thee shall be wasted, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

¹⁷ For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

¹⁸ Thus saith the Lord: Behold I bring back the captivity of the pavilions of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses, and the city shall be built in her place, and the temple shall be found according to the order thereof.

¹⁹ And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them that play: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be made few : and I will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened.

²⁰ And their children shall be as from the beginning, and their assembly be permanent before me : and I will against all that afflict them.

²¹ And their leader shall be of themselves: and their prince shall come forth from the midst of them : and I will bring him near, and he shall come to me: for who is this that setteth his heart to approach to me, saith the Lord?

²² And you shall be my people: and I will be your God.

²³ Behold the whirlwind of the Lord, his fury going forth, a violent storm, it shall rest upon the head of the wicked.

²⁴ The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation, till he have executed and performed the thought o his heart: in the latter days you shall understand these things.

¹ I SAY then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

² God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against Israel?

³ Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

⁴ But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal.

⁵ Even so then at this present time also, there is a remnant saved according to the election of grace.

⁶ And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

⁷ What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it; and the rest have been blinded.

⁸ As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.

⁹ And David saith: Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them.

¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.

¹¹ I say then, have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid. But by their offence, salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.

¹² Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world, and the diminution of them, the riches of the Gentiles; how much more the fulness of them?

¹³ For I say to you, Gentiles: as long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,

¹⁴ If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

¹⁵ For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

¹⁶ For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷ And if some of the branches be broken, and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁸ Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

¹⁹ Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

²⁰ Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear.

²¹ For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.

²² See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

²³ And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

²⁴ For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, were grafted into the good olive tree; how much more shall they that are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

²⁵ For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, (lest you should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.

²⁶ And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

²⁷ And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins.

²⁸ As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.

²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

³⁰ For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief;

³¹ So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy.

³² For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all.

³³ O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

³⁵ Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

³⁶ For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.