21. Set up landmarks!Put up road signs!Remember the highway, the road on which you traveled.Come back, my dear people Israel, come back to your cities.
22. How long will you wander around, you unfaithful people?The Lord will create something new on earth:A woman will protect a man.
23. This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: When I have brought them back from captivity, they will once again use this saying in Judah and in its cities:“The Lord bless you, home of righteousness, holy mountain.
24. Judah and all its cities will live there together.Farmers and shepherds will also live there.
25. I will give those who are weary all they need.I will refresh everyone who is filled with sorrow.”
26. At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant.
27. “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will plant the nations of Israel and Judah with people and animals.
28. Once I watched over them to uproot them, to tear them down, and to wreck, ruin, and hurt them. Now I will watch over them to build them up and to plant them,” declares the Lord.
29. “When those days come, people will no longer say, ‘Fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children’s teeth are set on edge.’
30. But each person will die for his own sin. Whoever eats sour grapes will have his own teeth set on edge.
31. “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah.
32. It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.
33. “But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.