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The Septuagint in English by Brenton
LXX(EN)
The Writings of Cornelius Tacitus
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[1]At that time, saith the Lord, I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people. [No book]
[2]Thus saith the Lord, I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go ye and destroy not Israel. [No book]
[3]The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee in compassion. [No book]
[4]For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry. [No book]
[5]For ye have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant ye, and praise. [No book]
[6]For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise ye, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God. [No book]
[7]For thus saith the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice ye, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise ye: say, The Lord has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel. [No book]
[8]Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and the people shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither. [No book]
[9]They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born. [No book]
[10]Hear the words of the Lord, ye nations, and proclaim them to the islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock. [No book]
[11]For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of them that were stronger than he. [No book]
[12]And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Sion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, even to a land of corn, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more. [No book]
[13]Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry. [No book]
[14]I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests the sons of Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good things: thus saith the Lord. [No book]
[15]A voice was heard in Rama, of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing; Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not. [No book]
[16]Thus saith the Lord; Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thine eyes from thy tears: for their is a reward for thy works; and they shall return from the land of thine enemies. [No book]
[17]There shall be an abiding home for thy children. [No book]
[18]I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, and saying, Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not willingly taught: turn thou me, and I shall turn; for thou art the Lord my God. [No book]
[19]For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and shewed thee that I bore reproach from my youth. [No book]
[20]Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste to help him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord. [No book]
[21]Prepare thyself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to thy ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which thou wentest, return mourning to thy cities. [No book]
[22]How long, O disgraced daughter, wilt thou turn away? for the Lord has created safety for a new plantation: men shall go about in safety. [No book]
[23]For thus saith the Lord; They shall yet speak this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn his captivity; blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy mountain! [No book]
[24]And there shall be dwellers in the cities of Juda, and in all his land, together with the husbandman, and the shepherd shall go forth with the flock. [No book]
[25]For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul. [No book]
[26]Therefore I awake, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me. [No book]
[27]Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of man, and the seed of beast. [No book]
[28]And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord. [No book]
[29]In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge. [No book]
[30]But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge. [No book]
[31]Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda: [No book]
[32]not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith the Lord. [No book]
[33]For this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will surely put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. [No book]
[34]And they shall not at all teach every one his fellow citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more. [No book]
[35]Thus saith the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and makes a roaring in the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name: [No book]
[36]if these ordinances cease from before me, saith the Lord, then shall the family of Israel cease to be a nation before me forever. [No book]
[37]Though the sky should be raised to a greater height, saith the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk lower beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that they have done. [No book]
[38]Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Anameel to the gate of the corner. [No book]
[39]And the measurement of it shall proceed in front of them as far as the hills of Gareb, and it shall be compassed with a circular wall of choice stones. [No book]
[40]And all the Asaremoth even to Nachal Kedron, as far as the corner of the horse-gate eastward, shall be holiness to the Lord; and it shall not fail any more, and shall not be destroyed for ever. [No book]
Author: Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)
Source: ecmarsh.com
 Source: www.earlychristianwritings.com
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