Jeremiah 31:22-24

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“How long will you hesitate [to return],
O you faithless and renegade daughter?
For the Lord has created a ^[a]new thing in the land [of Israel]:
A woman will encompass (tenderly love) a man.”

²³Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Once more they will speak these words in the land of Judah (the Southern Kingdom) and in her cities when I restore their fortunes and release them from exile,

‘The Lord bless you, O habitation of justice and righteousness,
O holy mountain!’

²⁴And [the people of] Judah and all its cities will live there together—the farmer and they who wander about with flocks.

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 31:22 This passage probably personifies Israel as an erring but deeply penitent wife, who will devote herself to winning back and being worthy of the love of her divine husband and Lord, who had rejected her.