Jeremiah 31:21
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21 Set up road markers for yourself;
make yourself signposts;
consider well the highway,
the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
return to these your cities.(A)
Jeremiah 50:5
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5 They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, and they shall come and join themselves to the Lord by an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
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Isaiah 48:20
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20 Go out from Babylon; flee from Chaldea;
declare this with a shout of joy; proclaim it;
send it forth to the end of the earth;
say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”(A)
Zechariah 2:6-7
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Interlude: An Appeal to the Exiles
6 Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord, for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.(A) 7 Up! Escape to Zion, you who live with daughter Babylon.
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Haggai 1:5
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5 Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.(A)
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Ezekiel 40:4
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4 The man said to me, “Mortal, look closely and listen attentively, and set your mind on all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you; declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”(A)
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Jeremiah 51:50
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50 You survivors of the sword,
go; do not linger!
Remember the Lord in a distant land,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind:(A)
Jeremiah 31:4
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4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
O virgin Israel!
Again you shall adorn yourself with your tambourines
and go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.(A)
Jeremiah 3:14
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14 Return, O faithless children,
says the Lord,
for I am your husband;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.(A)
Isaiah 62:10
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10 Go through, go through the gates;
prepare the way for the people;
build up, build up the highway;
clear it of stones;
lift up an ensign over the peoples.(A)
Isaiah 57:14
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A Promise of Help and Healing
14 It shall be said,
“Build up, build up, prepare the way;
remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”(A)
Isaiah 52:11-12
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11 Depart, depart, go out from there!
Touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of it; purify yourselves,
you who carry the vessels of the Lord.(A)
12 For you shall not go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight,
for the Lord will go before you,
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.(B)
Psalm 84:5
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Footnotes
- 84.5 Heb lacks to Zion
Zechariah 10:9
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9 Though I scattered them among the nations,
yet in far countries they shall remember me,
and they shall rear their children and return.(A)
Jeremiah 51:6
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6 Flee from the midst of Babylon;
save your lives, each of you!
Do not perish because of her guilt,
for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance;
he is repaying her what is due.(A)
Proverbs 24:32
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32 Then I saw and considered it;
I looked and received instruction.
Psalm 62:10
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10 Put no confidence in extortion,
and set no vain hopes on robbery;
if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.(A)
2 Chronicles 20:3
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3 Jehoshaphat was afraid; he set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.(A)
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2 Chronicles 11:16
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16 Those who had set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord, the God of their ancestors.(A)
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1 Chronicles 29:3
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3 Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:
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Deuteronomy 32:46
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46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words that I am giving in witness against you today; give them as a command to your children, so that they may diligently observe all the words of this law.(A)
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