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31 “At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying,

“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love.
    Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
I will build you again,
    and you will be built, O virgin of Israel.
You will again be adorned with your tambourines,
    and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.
Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria.
    The planters will plant,
    and will enjoy its fruit.
For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry,
    ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”

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31 “At that time,” declares[a] Yahweh,

“I will be the God of all the clans[b] of Israel,
and they will be to me a people.”

Thus says Yahweh:

The people of the survivors of the sword found grace in the desert;[c]
    Israel going to find their rest.”
From afar Yahweh appeared to me, saying,
“I have loved you with an everlasting love.
    Therefore[d] I have drawn you with loyal love.
I will again build you,
    and you will be built, O virgin Israel.
You will again adorn yourself with your tambourines,
    and you will go forth in the dancing in a ring of the merrymakers.
You will again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria.
    The planters will plant, and they will enjoy it.[e]
For there will be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim,
    ‘Stand up, and let us go up to Zion, to Yahweh our God.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:1 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 31:1 Or “families”
  3. Jeremiah 31:2 Or “wilderness”
  4. Jeremiah 31:3 Literally “Unto thus”
  5. Jeremiah 31:5 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation