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10 Listen to Me, Jeremiah. You say this place will become a desolate wasteland with no people and no animals, but it will not always be so. The towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem may indeed become lifeless, but I, the Eternal One, promise you the silence will be broken. Once again you will hear 11 the sounds of laughter and joy, the sweet words of the bride and bridegroom at a wedding, and voices of those who bring thank offerings to the temple singing,

    Give thanks to the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies,
        for He is good. His faithful love endures forever.

All of this will happen because I will restore the riches of this land to what they once were.

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10 “This is what the Lord says: ‘You say about this place, “It is a desolate waste, without people or animals.”(A) Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted,(B) inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more 11 the sounds of joy and gladness,(C) the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings(D) to the house of the Lord, saying,

“Give thanks to the Lord Almighty,
    for the Lord is good;(E)
    his love endures forever.”(F)

For I will restore the fortunes(G) of the land as they were before,(H)’ says the Lord.

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