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For a nation has come up against her out of the (A)north; it will make her land (B)an object of horror, and there will be (C)no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast have wandered off; they have gone away!

“In those days and at that time,” declares Yahweh, “the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah (D)as well; they will go along (E)weeping as they go, and it will be (F)Yahweh their God they will seek. They will (G)ask for the way to Zion—turning their faces [a]in its direction and saying, ‘[b]Come!’—in order that they may join themselves to Yahweh in an (H)everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:5 Lit hither
  2. Jeremiah 50:5 Gr they will come and join themselves

A nation from the north(A) will attack her
    and lay waste her land.
No one will live(B) in it;
    both people and animals(C) will flee away.

“In those days, at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together(D)
    will go in tears(E) to seek(F) the Lord their God.
They will ask the way(G) to Zion
    and turn their faces toward it.
They will come(H) and bind themselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant(I)
    that will not be forgotten.

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