Jeremiah 31:3-12

3 The LORD appeared to us in the past,[a] saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
4 I will build you up again, and you, Virgin Israel, will be rebuilt. Again you will take up your timbrels and go out to dance with the joyful.
5 Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit.
6 There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Come, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.’ ”
7 This is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, ‘LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’
8 See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. Among them will be the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor; a great throng will return.
9 They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.
10 “Hear the word of the LORD, you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands: ‘He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a shepherd.’
11 For the LORD will deliver Jacob and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they.
12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.

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Cross References 38

  • 1. S Deuteronomy 4:37
  • 2. Hosea 11:4; John 6:44
  • 3. S Jeremiah 1:10; S Jeremiah 30:18
  • 4. S 2 Kings 19:21
  • 5. S Genesis 31:27
  • 6. S Exodus 15:20
  • 7. S Jeremiah 30:19
  • 8. S Deuteronomy 20:6
  • 9. Jeremiah 33:13; Jeremiah 50:19; Obadiah 1:19
  • 10. S Isaiah 37:30; Isaiah 65:21; Amos 9:14
  • 11. S Isaiah 52:8; S Isaiah 56:10
  • 12. ver 12; S Deuteronomy 33:19; Isaiah 2:3; Jeremiah 50:4-5; Micah 4:2
  • 13. S Isaiah 12:6
  • 14. Deuteronomy 28:13; Isaiah 61:9
  • 15. Psalms 14:7; Psalms 28:9
  • 16. S Isaiah 37:31
  • 17. S Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 23:8
  • 18. S Genesis 33:13; S Deuteronomy 30:4; S Psalms 106:47; Ezekiel 34:12-14
  • 19. Isaiah 42:16
  • 20. Ezekiel 34:16; Micah 4:6
  • 21. S Ezra 3:12; Psalms 126:5
  • 22. Isaiah 63:13
  • 23. S Numbers 20:8; S Psalms 1:3; S Isaiah 32:2
  • 24. S Isaiah 40:4; S Isaiah 49:11
  • 25. S Exodus 4:22; S Jeremiah 3:4
  • 26. Isaiah 49:1; S Isaiah 66:19; S Jeremiah 25:22
  • 27. S Leviticus 26:33
  • 28. S Deuteronomy 30:4; S Isaiah 11:12; Jeremiah 50:19
  • 29. Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:12
  • 30. S Exodus 6:6; Zechariah 9:16; Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 48:20
  • 31. Psalms 142:6
  • 32. S Psalms 126:5
  • 33. Ezekiel 17:23; Ezekiel 20:40; Ezekiel 40:2; Micah 4:1
  • 34. S Psalms 36:8; Joel 3:18
  • 35. S Numbers 18:12; Hosea 2:21-22; Joel 2:19
  • 36. ver 24; S Isaiah 65:10
  • 37. S Song of Songs 4:15; Isaiah 58:11
  • 38. S Isaiah 30:19; S Isaiah 62:5; Isaiah 65:19; John 16:22; S Revelation 7:17

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or Lord"has appeared to us from afar"
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