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30.24 :The fierce anger of the shall not return,
 * Until He have executed, and till He have performed
 * The purposes of His heart;
 * In the end of days ye shall consider it.
 * At that time, saith the ,
 * Will I be the God of all the families of Israel,
 * And they shall be My people.


 * Thus saith the :
 * The people that were left of the sword
 * Have found grace in the wilderness,
 * Even Israel, when I go to cause him to rest.
 * 'From afar the appeared unto me.'
 * 'Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love;
 * Therefore with affection have I drawn thee.
 * Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built,
 * O virgin of Israel;
 * Again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets,
 * And shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
 * Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria;
 * The planters shall plant, and shall have the use thereof.
 * For there shall be a day,
 * That the watchmen shall call upon the mount Ephraim:
 * Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion,
 * Unto the our God.'


 * For thus saith the :
 * Sing with gladness for Jacob,
 * And shout at the head of the nations;
 * Announce ye, praise ye, and say:
 * 'O, save Thy people,
 * The remnant of Israel.'
 * Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
 * And gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth,
 * And with them the blind and the lame,
 * The woman with child and her that travaileth with child together;
 * A great company shall they return hither.
 * They shall come with weeping,
 * And with supplications will I lead them;
 * I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters,
 * In a straight way wherein they shall not stumble;
 * For I am become a father to Israel,
 * And Ephraim is My first-born.


 * Hear the word of the, O ye nations,
 * And declare it in the isles afar off, and say:
 * 'He that scattered Israel doth gather him,
 * And keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.'
 * For the hath ransomed Jacob,
 * And He redeemeth him from the hand of him that is stronger than he.
 * And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,
 * And shall flow unto the goodness of the ,
 * To the corn, and to the wine, and to the oil,
 * And to the young of the flock and of the herd;
 * And their soul shall be as a watered garden,
 * And they shall not pine any more at all.
 * Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,