Jer 31:2-6 | ESV | STEP | Thus says the Lord : The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness ; when Israel sought for rest ,

Jeremiah 31:2-6

2 Thus says the Lord:
“The people who survived the sword
found grace in the wilderness;
^awhen Israel sought for rest,
3 the Lord appeared to him ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew me} from far away.
^cI have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore ^dI have continued ^emy faithfulness to you.
4 ^fAgain I will build you, and you shall be built,
O virgin Israel!
^gAgain you shall adorn yourself with tambourines
and shall go forth in ^hthe dance of the merrymakers.
5 ⁱAgain you shall plant vineyards
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters shall plant
and shall enjoy the fruit.
6 For there shall be a day when watchmen will call
in ^jthe hill country of Ephraim:
^k‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
to the Lord our God.’”