the Lord appeared to him[a] from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you.(A)
Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt,
Virgin Israel.
You will take up your tambourines again(B)
and go out in joyful dancing.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:3 LXX; MT reads me

The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

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