Jer 31:21-30 | ESV | STEP | Set up road markers for yourself; make yourself guideposts ; consider well the highway , the road by which you went . Return , O virgin Israel , return to these your cities .

Jeremiah 31:21-30

21 ^a“Set up road markers for yourself;
make yourself guideposts;
^bconsider well the highway,
^cthe road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
return to these your cities.
22 ^dHow long will you waver,
^eO faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
a woman encircles a man.”
23 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, ^fwhen I restore their fortunes:

^g“‘The Lord bless you, ^hO habitation of righteousness,
ⁱO holy hill!’
24 ^jAnd Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and ^kthe farmers and those who wander with their flocks. 25 For I will ^lsatisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”

26 At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

27 ^m“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when ⁿI will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with ^othe seed of man and the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to pass that ^pas I have watched over them ^qto pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, ^rso I will watch over them ^sto build and to plant, declares the Lord. 29 In those days they shall no longer say:

^t“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
30 ^uBut everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.