Jeremiah 31:21

Place road signs for yourself. Set up guideposts for yourself. Set your mind on the right path, 1 the way you should take. Come back, virgin Israel! Come back to these cities of yours. 1

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In The King James Version

Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

In Context

20Is not Ephraim my precious child? Is he not my dear, delightful son? 1 For whenever I speak against him, I certainly still call him to my loving mind. In this way my heart longs for him. 1 I will certainly have compassion on him—this is Yahweh's declaration.” 1

22How long will you waver, faithless daughter? 1 For Yahweh has created something new on earth—a woman surrounds a strong man.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:46He said to them, “Fix your mind on all the words that I have witnessed to you today, so that you may command your children to keep them, all the words of this law.

2 Chronicles 11:16People from all the tribes of Israel came after them, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel; they came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

Psalms 62:10Do not trust in oppression or robbery; 1 and do not hope uselessly in riches, 1 for they will bear no fruit; do not fix your heart on them. 1

Proverbs 24:32Then I saw and considered it; 1 I looked and received instruction. 1

Isaiah 52:11Leave, leave, go out from there; touch nothing unclean; 1 leave from her midst; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh. 1

Isaiah 62:10Come through, come through the gates! Prepare the way for the people! 1 Build it, build the highway! Gather out the stones! 1 Raise up a signal flag for the nations! 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 31:19-27

Ephraim's Repentance and Privilege; Encouragements to the Captives. ( b. c. 594.) 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant… Read the whole commentary →

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