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Jeremiah 31:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Again I will build you, and you shall stay built, virgin Israel; Carrying your festive tambourines, you shall go forth dancing with merrymakers.

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This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion! Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.

Let them praise his name in dance, make music with tambourine and lyre.

Hear, O Lord, have mercy on me; Lord, be my helper.”

For you do not desire sacrifice or I would give it; a burnt offering you would not accept.

Let the heaven and the earth praise him, the seas and whatever moves in them!”

But the Lord will take pity on Jacob and again choose Israel, and will settle them on their own land; foreigners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

And every sweep of the rod of his punishment, which the Lord will bring down on him, Will be accompanied by timbrels and lyres, while he wages war against him.

This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion; Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.

Today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, To uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.

Speak to them this word: Let my eyes stream with tears night and day, without rest, Over the great destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations— who has ever heard the like? Truly horrible things virgin Israel has done!

I will look after them for good and bring them back to this land, to build them up, not tear them down; to plant them, not uproot them.

Then young women shall make merry and dance, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will show them compassion and have them rejoice after their sorrows.

Set up road markers, put up signposts; Turn your attention to the highway, the road you walked. Turn back, virgin Israel, turn back to these your cities.

See, days are coming—oracle of the Lord—when the city shall be rebuilt as the Lord’s, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

I will restore the fortunes of Judah and Israel, and rebuild them as they were in the beginning.

Go up to Gilead, procure balm, Virgin daughter Egypt! No use to multiply remedies; for you there is no healing.

All my valiant warriors my Lord has cast away; He proclaimed a feast against me to crush my young men; My Lord has trodden in the wine press virgin daughter Judah.

To what can I compare you—to what can I liken you— O daughter Jerusalem? What example can I give in order to comfort you, virgin daughter Zion? For your breach is vast as the sea; who could heal you?

She is fallen, to rise no more, virgin Israel; She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.

On that day I will raise up the fallen hut of David; I will wall up its breaches, raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

Take the fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast,

‘After this I shall return and rebuild the fallen hut of David; from its ruins I shall rebuild it and raise it up again,

When Jephthah returned to his house in Mizpah, it was his daughter who came out to meet him, with tambourine-playing and dancing. She was his only child: he had neither son nor daughter besides her.




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