31:15 The Lord says,
“A sound is heard in Ramah, 1
a sound of crying in bitter grief.
It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.” 2
31:16 The Lord says to her, 3
“Stop crying! Do not shed any more tears! 4
For your heartfelt repentance 5 will be rewarded.
Your children will return from the land of the enemy.
I, the Lord, affirm it! 6
31:17 Indeed, there is hope for your posterity. 7
Your children will return to their own territory.
I, the Lord, affirm it! 8
11:11 I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, 9 did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel 10 jealous. 11:12 Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration 11 bring?
11:13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 11:14 if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them. 11:15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 11:16 If the first portion 12 of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches. 13
11:17 Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in 14 the richness of the olive root,
“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; 17
break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains,
because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous
than those of the woman who has a husband.” 18
4:28 But you, 19 brothers and sisters, 20 are children of the promise like Isaac. 4:29 But just as at that time the one born by natural descent 21 persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, 22 so it is now.