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First Reading Office Readings Friday 22 Wk, Jeremiah
30:18-31:9

Promises of Israel’s restoration

The Lord says this:
Now I will restore the tents of Jacob,
and take pity on his dwellings:
the city shall be rebuilt on its ruins,

the citadel restored on its site.
From them will come thanksgiving
and shouts of joy.

I will make them increase, and not diminish them,
make them honoured, and not disdained.
Their sons shall be as once they were,
their community fixed firm in my presence,

and I will punish all their oppressors.
Their prince will be one of their own,
their ruler come from their own people.

I will let him come freely into my presence and he can come
close to me;
who else, indeed, would risk his life

by coming close to me? – it is the Lord who speaks.
And you shall be my people and I will be your God.
Now a storm of the Lord breaks,

a tempest whirls,
it bursts over the head of the wicked;
the anger of the Lord will not turn aside
until he has performed and carried out,

the decision of his heart.
You will understand this in the days to come.

When that time comes – it is the Lord who speaks – I will be the
God of all the clans of Israel: they shall be my people.

The Lord says this:

They have found pardon in the wilderness,
those who have survived the sword.
Israel is marching to his rest.
The Lord has appeared to him from afar:

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