Parallel Verses
- New International Version - “Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her.
- 新标点和合本 - “后来我必劝导她，领她到旷野， 对她说安慰的话。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 因此，看哪，我要诱导她，领她到旷野， 我要说动她的心。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 因此，看哪，我要诱导她，领她到旷野， 我要说动她的心。
- 当代译本 - “然而，我要引导她， 领她到旷野， 柔声安慰她。
- 圣经新译本 - “因此，我要诱导她， 领她到旷野， 对她说安慰的话。
- 现代标点和合本 - “后来我必劝导她，领她到旷野， 对她说安慰的话。
- 和合本（拼音版） - “后来我必劝导她，领她到旷野， 对她说安慰的话。
- New International Reader's Version - “So now I am going to draw her back to me. I will lead her into the desert. There I will speak tenderly to her.
- English Standard Version - “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
- New Living Translation - “But then I will win her back once again. I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her there.
- The Message - “And now, here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to start all over again. I’m taking her back out into the wilderness where we had our first date, and I’ll court her. I’ll give her bouquets of roses. I’ll turn Heartbreak Valley into Acres of Hope. She’ll respond like she did as a young girl, those days when she was fresh out of Egypt. * * *
- Christian Standard Bible - Therefore, I am going to persuade her, lead her to the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
- New American Standard Bible - “Therefore, behold, I am going to persuade her, Bring her into the wilderness, And speak kindly to her.
- New King James Version - “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her.
- Amplified Bible - “Therefore, behold, I will allure Israel And bring her into the wilderness, And I will speak tenderly to her [to reconcile her to Me].
- American Standard Version - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
- King James Version - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
- New English Translation - However, in the future I will allure her; I will lead her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
- World English Bible - “Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
- 新標點和合本 - 後來我必勸導她，領她到曠野， 對她說安慰的話。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 因此，看哪，我要誘導她，領她到曠野， 我要說動她的心。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 因此，看哪，我要誘導她，領她到曠野， 我要說動她的心。
- 當代譯本 - 「然而，我要引導她， 領她到曠野， 柔聲安慰她。
- 聖經新譯本 - “因此，我要誘導她， 領她到曠野， 對她說安慰的話。
- 呂振中譯本 - 『因此你看吧、是我要誘導她， 領她到野地， 和她談心。
- 現代標點和合本 - 「後來我必勸導她，領她到曠野， 對她說安慰的話。
- 文理和合譯本 - 我將誘掖之、導之於野、以善言慰之、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 厥後我勸迪斯民、導之於野、以善言慰藉、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 雖然、厥後我仍勸誘之、導之於野、以善言慰藉其心、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - »Por eso, ahora voy a seducirla: me la llevaré al desierto y le hablaré con ternura.
- 현대인의 성경 - “그러므로 내가 그녀를 꾀어내어 광야로 데리고 가서 부드러운 말로 잘 타이르고
- Новый Русский Перевод - Поэтому теперь Я увлеку ее; Я приведу ее в пустыню и буду говорить с ней ласково.
- Восточный перевод - Но теперь Я увлеку её; Я приведу её в пустыню и буду говорить с ней ласково.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но теперь Я увлеку её; Я приведу её в пустыню и буду говорить с ней ласково.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но теперь Я увлеку её; Я приведу её в пустыню и буду говорить с ней ласково.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Et je dévasterai ╵sa vigne et son figuier dont elle a dit : « Voyez, c’est le salaire ╵donné par mes amants. » Je les réduirai en broussailles et les bêtes sauvages ╵en feront leur pâture.
- リビングバイブル - 「だが、わたしは再び彼女をくどいて 荒野に連れて行き、やさしく語りかけよう。
- Nova Versão Internacional - “Portanto, agora vou atraí-la; vou levá-la para o deserto e falar-lhe com carinho.
- Hoffnung für alle - Ich verwüste ihre Weinstöcke und Feigenbäume, von denen sie sagte: ›Das habe ich von meinen Freunden für meine Liebesdienste bekommen.‹ Alles, was sie gepflanzt hat, lasse ich von Gestrüpp überwuchern und von wilden Tieren abfressen.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Vậy nên Ta sẽ thu phục nó một lần nữa. Ta sẽ dẫn nó vào hoang mạc và chuyện trò dịu dàng với nó tại đó.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “ดังนั้นเรากำลังจะเกลี้ยกล่อมนาง เราจะพานางเข้าไปในถิ่นกันดาร และพูดกับนางอย่างอ่อนโยน
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - “ฉะนั้น ดูเถิด เราจะชวนนาง และนำนางเข้าไปในถิ่นทุรกันดาร และพูดกับนางอย่างนุ่มนวล
Cross Reference
- Jeremiah 30:18 - “This is what the Lord says: “ ‘I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings; the city will be rebuilt on her ruins, and the palace will stand in its proper place.
- Jeremiah 30:19 - From them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will add to their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will bring them honor, and they will not be disdained.
- Jeremiah 30:20 - Their children will be as in days of old, and their community will be established before me; I will punish all who oppress them.
- Jeremiah 30:21 - Their leader will be one of their own; their ruler will arise from among them. I will bring him near and he will come close to me— for who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?’ declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 30:22 - “‘So you will be my people, and I will be your God.’ ”
- Zechariah 8:19 - This is what the Lord Almighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.”
- Zechariah 8:20 - This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come,
- Zechariah 8:21 - and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the Lord and seek the Lord Almighty. I myself am going.’
- Zechariah 8:22 - And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him.”
- Zechariah 8:23 - This is what the Lord Almighty says: “In those days ten people from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, ‘Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.’ ”
- Isaiah 51:3 - The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
- Isaiah 51:4 - “Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations.
- Isaiah 51:5 - My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm.
- Isaiah 51:6 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
- Isaiah 51:7 - “Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart: Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults.
- Isaiah 51:8 - For the moth will eat them up like a garment; the worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever, my salvation through all generations.”
- Isaiah 51:9 - Awake, awake, arm of the Lord, clothe yourself with strength! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through?
- Isaiah 51:10 - Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over?
- Isaiah 51:11 - Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
- Isaiah 51:12 - “I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings who are but grass,
- Isaiah 51:13 - that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?
- Isaiah 51:14 - The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.
- Isaiah 51:15 - For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord Almighty is his name.
- Isaiah 51:16 - I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”
- Isaiah 51:17 - Awake, awake! Rise up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes people stagger.
- Isaiah 51:18 - Among all the children she bore there was none to guide her; among all the children she reared there was none to take her by the hand.
- Isaiah 51:19 - These double calamities have come upon you— who can comfort you?— ruin and destruction, famine and sword— who can console you?
- Isaiah 51:20 - Your children have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, with the rebuke of your God.
- Isaiah 51:21 - Therefore hear this, you afflicted one, made drunk, but not with wine.
- Isaiah 51:22 - This is what your Sovereign Lord says, your God, who defends his people: “See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again.
- Isaiah 51:23 - I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, ‘Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.’ And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked on.”
- Genesis 34:3 - His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
- Ezekiel 34:22 - I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another.
- Ezekiel 34:23 - I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.
- Ezekiel 34:24 - I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the Lord have spoken.
- Ezekiel 34:25 - “ ‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of savage beasts so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the forests in safety.
- Ezekiel 34:26 - I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.
- Ezekiel 34:27 - The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.
- Ezekiel 34:28 - They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will wild animals devour them. They will live in safety, and no one will make them afraid.
- Ezekiel 34:29 - I will provide for them a land renowned for its crops, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations.
- Ezekiel 34:30 - Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them and that they, the Israelites, are my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.
- Ezekiel 34:31 - You are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ ”
- Jeremiah 32:36 - “You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plague it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon’; but this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says:
- Jeremiah 32:37 - I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.
- Jeremiah 32:38 - They will be my people, and I will be their God.
- Jeremiah 32:39 - I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them.
- Jeremiah 32:40 - I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.
- Jeremiah 32:41 - I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.
- Isaiah 35:3 - Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way;
- Isaiah 35:4 - say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”
- Judges 19:3 - her husband went to her to persuade her to return. He had with him his servant and two donkeys. She took him into her parents’ home, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
- Ezekiel 37:11 - Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’
- Ezekiel 37:12 - Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
- Ezekiel 37:13 - Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
- Ezekiel 37:14 - I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’ ”
- Ezekiel 37:15 - The word of the Lord came to me:
- Ezekiel 37:16 - “Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, ‘Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, ‘Belonging to Joseph (that is, to Ephraim) and all the Israelites associated with him.’
- Ezekiel 37:17 - Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.
- Ezekiel 37:18 - “When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you tell us what you mean by this?’
- Ezekiel 37:19 - say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim’s hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah’s stick. I will make them into a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.’
- Ezekiel 37:20 - Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on
- Ezekiel 37:21 - and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.
- Ezekiel 37:22 - I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.
- Ezekiel 37:23 - They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
- Ezekiel 37:24 - “ ‘My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.
- Ezekiel 37:25 - They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.
- Ezekiel 37:26 - I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever.
- Ezekiel 37:27 - My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Ezekiel 37:28 - Then the nations will know that I the Lord make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.’ ”
- Isaiah 49:13 - Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
- Isaiah 49:14 - But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.”
- Isaiah 49:15 - “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
- Isaiah 49:16 - See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
- Isaiah 49:17 - Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.
- Isaiah 49:18 - Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the Lord, “you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride.
- Isaiah 49:19 - “Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
- Isaiah 49:20 - The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’
- Isaiah 49:21 - Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?’ ”
- Isaiah 49:22 - This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips.
- Isaiah 49:23 - Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”
- Isaiah 49:24 - Can plunder be taken from warriors, or captives be rescued from the fierce ?
- Isaiah 49:25 - But this is what the Lord says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.
- Isaiah 49:26 - I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- Ezekiel 36:8 - “ ‘But you, mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home.
- Ezekiel 36:9 - I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,
- Ezekiel 36:10 - and I will cause many people to live on you—yes, all of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
- Ezekiel 36:11 - I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 36:12 - I will cause people, my people Israel, to live on you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children.
- Ezekiel 36:13 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because some say to you, “You devour people and deprive your nation of its children,”
- Ezekiel 36:14 - therefore you will no longer devour people or make your nation childless, declares the Sovereign Lord.
- Ezekiel 36:15 - No longer will I make you hear the taunts of the nations, and no longer will you suffer the scorn of the peoples or cause your nation to fall, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ ”
- Ezekiel 20:10 - Therefore I led them out of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
- Zechariah 1:12 - Then the angel of the Lord said, “Lord Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?”
- Zechariah 1:13 - So the Lord spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.
- Zechariah 1:14 - Then the angel who was speaking to me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
- Zechariah 1:15 - and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but they went too far with the punishment.’
- Zechariah 1:16 - “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem,’ declares the Lord Almighty.
- Zechariah 1:17 - “Proclaim further: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’ ”
- Jeremiah 16:14 - “However, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’
- Isaiah 30:18 - Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
- Song of Songs 1:4 - Take me away with you—let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. We rejoice and delight in you ; we will praise your love more than wine. How right they are to adore you!
- Jeremiah 3:12 - Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “ ‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will not be angry forever.
- Jeremiah 3:13 - Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the Lord your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’ ” declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 3:14 - “Return, faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.
- Jeremiah 3:15 - Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.
- Jeremiah 3:16 - In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the Lord, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.
- Jeremiah 3:17 - At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the Lord, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the Lord. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
- Jeremiah 3:18 - In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.
- Jeremiah 3:19 - “I myself said, “ ‘How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘Father’ and not turn away from following me.
- Jeremiah 3:20 - But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,” declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 3:21 - A cry is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the Lord their God.
- Jeremiah 3:22 - “Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding.” “Yes, we will come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
- Jeremiah 3:23 - Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
- Jeremiah 3:24 - From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our ancestors’ labor— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
- Zephaniah 3:9 - “Then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that all of them may call on the name of the Lord and serve him shoulder to shoulder.
- Zephaniah 3:10 - From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, my scattered people, will bring me offerings.
- Zephaniah 3:11 - On that day you, Jerusalem, will not be put to shame for all the wrongs you have done to me, because I will remove from you your arrogant boasters. Never again will you be haughty on my holy hill.
- Zephaniah 3:12 - But I will leave within you the meek and humble. The remnant of Israel will trust in the name of the Lord.
- Zephaniah 3:13 - They will do no wrong; they will tell no lies. A deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouths. They will eat and lie down and no one will make them afraid.”
- Zephaniah 3:14 - Sing, Daughter Zion; shout aloud, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!
- Zephaniah 3:15 - The Lord has taken away your punishment, he has turned back your enemy. The Lord, the King of Israel, is with you; never again will you fear any harm.
- Zephaniah 3:16 - On that day they will say to Jerusalem, “Do not fear, Zion; do not let your hands hang limp.
- Zephaniah 3:17 - The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
- Zephaniah 3:18 - “I will remove from you all who mourn over the loss of your appointed festivals, which is a burden and reproach for you.
- Zephaniah 3:19 - At that time I will deal with all who oppressed you. I will rescue the lame; I will gather the exiles. I will give them praise and honor in every land where they have suffered shame.
- Zephaniah 3:20 - At that time I will gather you; at that time I will bring you home. I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your very eyes,” says the Lord..
- Jeremiah 31:1 - “At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
- Jeremiah 31:2 - This is what the Lord says: “The people who survive the sword will find favor in the wilderness; I will come to give rest to Israel.”
- Jeremiah 31:3 - The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
- Jeremiah 31:4 - 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.
- Jeremiah 31:5 - Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit.
- Jeremiah 31:6 - 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.’ ”
- Jeremiah 31:7 - 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.’
- Jeremiah 31:8 - 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.
- Jeremiah 31:9 - 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.
- Jeremiah 31:10 - “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.’
- Jeremiah 31:11 - For the Lord will deliver Jacob and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they.
- Jeremiah 31:12 - 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.
- Jeremiah 31:13 - Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.
- Jeremiah 31:14 - I will satisfy the priests with abundance, and my people will be filled with my bounty,” declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 31:15 - This is what the Lord says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- Jeremiah 31:16 - This is what the Lord says: “Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,” declares the Lord. “They will return from the land of the enemy.
- Jeremiah 31:17 - So there is hope for your descendants,” declares the Lord. “Your children will return to their own land.
- Jeremiah 31:18 - “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the Lord my God.
- Jeremiah 31:19 - After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
- Jeremiah 31:20 - Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 31:21 - “Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Take note of the highway, the road that you take. Return, Virgin Israel, return to your towns.
- Jeremiah 31:22 - How long will you wander, unfaithful Daughter Israel? The Lord will create a new thing on earth— the woman will return to the man.”
- Jeremiah 31:23 - This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “When I bring them back from captivity, the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: ‘The Lord bless you, you prosperous city, you sacred mountain.’
- Jeremiah 31:24 - People will live together in Judah and all its towns—farmers and those who move about with their flocks.
- Jeremiah 31:25 - I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”
- Jeremiah 31:26 - At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me.
- Jeremiah 31:27 - “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will plant the kingdoms of Israel and Judah with the offspring of people and of animals.
- Jeremiah 31:28 - Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 31:29 - “In those days people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
- Jeremiah 31:30 - Instead, everyone will die for their own sin; whoever eats sour grapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.
- Jeremiah 31:31 - “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
- Jeremiah 31:32 - It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, ” declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 31:33 - “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Jeremiah 31:34 - No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
- Jeremiah 31:35 - This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord Almighty is his name:
- Jeremiah 31:36 - “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,” declares the Lord, “will Israel ever cease being a nation before me.”
- Jeremiah 31:37 - This is what the Lord says: “Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,” declares the Lord.
- Ezekiel 39:25 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name.
- Ezekiel 39:26 - They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid.
- Ezekiel 39:27 - When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations.
- Ezekiel 39:28 - Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind.
- Ezekiel 39:29 - I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.”
- Jeremiah 2:2 - “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the Lord says: “ ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.
- Jeremiah 33:6 - “ ‘Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.
- Jeremiah 33:7 - I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity and will rebuild them as they were before.
- Jeremiah 33:8 - I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me.
- Jeremiah 33:9 - Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honor before all nations on earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.’
- Jeremiah 33:10 - “This is what the Lord says: ‘You say about this place, “It is a desolate waste, without people or animals.” Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more
- Jeremiah 33:11 - the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord, saying, “Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good; his love endures forever.” For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,’ says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 33:12 - “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In this place, desolate and without people or animals—in all its towns there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.
- Jeremiah 33:13 - In the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hand of the one who counts them,’ says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 33:14 - “ ‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah.
- Jeremiah 33:15 - “ ‘In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David’s line; he will do what is just and right in the land.
- Jeremiah 33:16 - In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety. This is the name by which it will be called: The Lord Our Righteous Savior.’
- Jeremiah 33:17 - For this is what the Lord says: ‘David will never fail to have a man to sit on the throne of Israel,
- Jeremiah 33:18 - nor will the Levitical priests ever fail to have a man to stand before me continually to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings and to present sacrifices.’ ”
- Jeremiah 33:19 - The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
- Jeremiah 33:20 - “This is what the Lord says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time,
- Jeremiah 33:21 - then my covenant with David my servant—and my covenant with the Levites who are priests ministering before me—can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.
- Jeremiah 33:22 - I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars in the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.’ ”
- Jeremiah 33:23 - The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
- Jeremiah 33:24 - “Have you not noticed that these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two kingdoms he chose’? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation.
- Jeremiah 33:25 - This is what the Lord says: ‘If I have not made my covenant with day and night and established the laws of heaven and earth,
- Jeremiah 33:26 - then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his sons to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.’ ”
- Amos 9:11 - “In that day I will restore David’s fallen shelter— I will repair its broken walls and restore its ruins— and will rebuild it as it used to be,
- Amos 9:12 - so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear my name, ” declares the Lord, who will do these things.
- Amos 9:13 - “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills,
- Amos 9:14 - and I will bring my people Israel back from exile. “They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
- Amos 9:15 - I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God.
- Hosea 2:3 - Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.
- Romans 11:26 - and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
- Romans 11:27 - And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
- John 12:32 - And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
- Micah 7:14 - Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.
- Micah 7:15 - “As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show them my wonders.”
- Micah 7:16 - Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their power. They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears will become deaf.
- Micah 7:17 - They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the Lord our God and will be afraid of you.
- Micah 7:18 - Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.
- Micah 7:19 - You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
- Micah 7:20 - You will be faithful to Jacob, and show love to Abraham, as you pledged on oath to our ancestors in days long ago.
- John 6:44 - “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
- Revelation 12:14 - The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.
- Ezekiel 20:35 - I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations and there, face to face, I will execute judgment upon you.
- Ezekiel 20:36 - As I judged your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Sovereign Lord.
- Isaiah 40:1 - Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
- Isaiah 40:2 - Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
- Revelation 12:6 - The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.