Jer 31:3-12, Eze 34:13 | ESV | STEP | the Lord appeared to him from far away . I have loved you with an everlasting love ; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

x[See ver. 8 above]

y Isa. 40:11

z Isa. 43:1; 44:23; 48:20

aa[Isa. 49:24, 25]

ab Isa. 2:2; Mic. 4:1

agSee ch. 11:17

ahSee ch. 6:2

Jeremiah 31:3-12

3 the Lord appeared to him ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew me} from far away.
^bI have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore ^cI have continued ^dmy faithfulness to you.
4 ^eAgain I will build you, and you shall be built,
O virgin Israel!
^fAgain you shall adorn yourself with tambourines
and shall go forth in ^gthe dance of the merrymakers.
5 ^hAgain 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 ⁱthe hill country of Ephraim:
^j‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
to the Lord our God.’”
7 For thus says the Lord:
^k“Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
and raise shouts for ^lthe chief of the nations;
proclaim, give praise, and say,
^m‘O Lord, save your people,
the remnant of Israel.’
8 Behold, I will bring them ⁿfrom the north country
and ^ogather them from ^pthe farthest parts of the earth,
among them ^qthe blind and the lame,
the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together;
a great company, they shall return here.
9 ^rWith weeping they shall come,
^sand with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,
I will make them ^twalk by brooks of water,
^uin a straight path in which they shall not stumble,
for ^vI am a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is ^wmy firstborn.
10 “Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will ^xgather him,
and will keep him ^yas a shepherd keeps his flock.’
11 ^zFor the Lord has ransomed Jacob
and has redeemed him from ^aahands too strong for him.
12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion,
^aband they shall be radiant ^acover the goodness of the Lord,
^adover the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and over the young of the flock and the herd;
^aetheir life shall be like a watered garden,
^afand they shall languish no more.

Ezekiel 34:13

13 And I will bring them out from the peoples ^agand gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on ^ahthe mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country.