Repentance and Restoration

21 Set up road markers(A) for yourself;
establish signposts!
Keep the highway in mind,
the way you have traveled.
Return, Virgin Israel!
Return to these cities of yours.
22 How long will you turn here and there,
faithless daughter?(B)
For the Lord creates something new in the land[a]
a female[b] will shelter[c] a man.

23 This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore their fortunes,[d] they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the Lord bless you, righteous settlement,(C) holy mountain.’(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 31:22 Or new on earth
  2. 31:22 Or woman
  3. 31:22 Or female surrounds, or female courts; Hb obscure
  4. 31:23 Or I end their captivity

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