Jeremiah 31:21-30

21‘People of Israel, put up signs along the roads, so that you know the way to go. Remember the road that you travelled on when you went away from your land. Now return, my special people, Israel. Return to your cities that you had to leave.

22You went away from me, like a daughter who refuses to obey her father. Do not continue to turn away from me. I, the Lord, promise to do a new thing. Women will take care of men!’

23The Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says this: ‘I will bring my people back from the land where they have been prisoners. Then the people in the towns of Judah will again say, “We pray that the Lord will bless you, Jerusalem. You are the special place where he lives on his holy mountain!”

24People will live together in the towns of Judah. Farmers and shepherds will work in the fields.

25I will help those who feel tired. I will make those who feel weak strong again.

26Then they will say, “When I woke from my sleep and I looked around, I was happy.” ’

27The Lord says this: ‘The time will come when I fill the lands of Israel and Judah with people and animals.

28In past time, I chose to pull them out of their land, like a plant with its roots. I knocked them down and I destroyed them. But now I will put them in their land again, like strong plants.’ That is what the Lord says.

29‘When that happens, people will not say, “The fathers have eaten bitter fruit, but it causes their children's teeth to hurt.”

30Instead, I will punish everyone for their own sins. It will be the teeth of the person who eats bitter fruit that will hurt.’