Jeremiah 31:21-30 - Repentance And Restoration

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“Place for yourself road signs [toward Canaan],
Make for yourself guideposts;
Turn your thought and attention to the highway,
To the way by which you went [into exile].
Retrace your steps, O virgin of Israel,
Return to these your cities.
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“How long will you hesitate [to return],
O you faithless and renegade daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing in the land [of Israel]:
A woman will encompass (tenderly love) a man.”

²³ Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Once more they will speak these words in the land of Judah (the Southern Kingdom) and in her cities when I restore their fortunes and release them from exile,

‘The Lord bless you, O habitation of justice and righteousness,
O holy mountain!’ ²⁴ And [the people of] Judah and all its cities will live there together—the farmer and they who wander about with flocks. ²⁵ For I [fully] satisfy the weary soul, and I replenish every languishing and sorrowful person.”

²⁶ At this I (Jeremiah) awoke and looked, and my [trancelike] sleep was sweet [in the assurance it gave] to me.

²⁷ “Behold (listen carefully), the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast. ²⁸ It will be that as I have watched over them to uproot and to break down, to overthrow, destroy, and afflict with disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant [with good],” says the Lord. ²⁹
“In those days they will not say again,
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

³⁰ But everyone will die [only] for his own wickedness; every man who eats sour grapes—his [own] teeth shall be set on edge.