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Jeremiah 31:4

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31:4I will rebuild you, my dear children Israel,5

so that you will once again be built up.

Once again you will take up the tambourine

and join in the happy throng of dancers.6

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Footnotes

  1. 5 Heb “Virgin Israel.” For the significance of this metaphor see the note on . Here the emphasis appears on his special love and care for his people and the hint (further developed in vv. 21–22) that, though guilty of sin, he considers them like an innocent young virgin.
  2. 6 Contrast Jer 7:34 and 25:10.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Again I will build you, and you shall be built,

O virgin Israel!

Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines

and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I will build you up again,

and you, Virgin Israel, will be rebuilt.

Again you will take up your timbrels

and go out to dance with the joyful.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt,

Virgin Israel.

You will take up your tambourines again

and go out in joyful dancing.

NLTNew Living Translation

I will rebuild you, my virgin Israel.

You will again be happy

and dance merrily with your tambourines.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I will again build you,

and you will be built, O virgin Israel.

You will again adorn yourself with your tambourines,

and you will go forth in the dancing in a ring of the merrymakers.

KJV 1900King James Version

Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel:

Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets,

And shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.