Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Take note of the highway, the road that you take. Return, Virgin Israel, return to your towns. New Living Translation Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Mark well the path by which you came. Come back again, my virgin Israel; return to your towns here. English Standard Version “Set up road markers for yourself; make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities. Berean Standard Bible “Set up the roadmarks, establish the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours. King James Bible 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. New King James Version “Set up signposts, Make landmarks; Set your heart toward the highway, The way in which you went. Turn back, O virgin of Israel, Turn back to these your cities. New American Standard Bible “Set up roadmarks for yourself, Place guideposts for yourself; Direct your mind to the highway, The way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities. NASB 1995 “Set up for yourself roadmarks, Place for yourself guideposts; Direct your mind to the highway, The way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities. NASB 1977 “Set up for yourself roadmarks, Place for yourself guideposts; Direct your mind to the highway, The way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities. Legacy Standard Bible “Set up roadmarks for yourself, Place for yourself guideposts; Set your heart to the highway, The way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities. Amplified Bible “Place for yourself road signs [toward Canaan], Make for yourself guideposts; Turn your thought and attention to the highway, To the way by which you went [into exile]. Retrace your steps, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities. Christian Standard Bible Set up road markers for yourself; establish signposts! Keep the highway in mind, the way you have traveled. Return, Virgin Israel! Return to these cities of yours. Holman Christian Standard Bible Set up road markers for yourself; establish signposts! Keep the highway in mind, the way you have traveled. Return, Virgin Israel! Return to these cities of yours. American Standard Version Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. Contemporary English Version With rock piles and signposts, mark the road well, my dear people. The road by which you left by will now lead you home. English Revised Version Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. GOD'S WORD® Translation 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. Good News Translation Set up signs and mark the road; find again the way by which you left. Come back, people of Israel, come home to the towns you left. International Standard Version Set up markers for yourselves. Erect signposts for yourselves. Pay attention to the highway, to the road you traveled. Return, virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours. Majority Standard Bible “Set up the roadmarks, establish the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours. NET Bible I will say, 'My dear children of Israel, keep in mind the road you took when you were carried off. Mark off in your minds the landmarks. Make a mental note of telltale signs marking the way back. Return, my dear children of Israel. Return to these cities of yours. New Heart English Bible "Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. Webster's Bible Translation Set thee up way-marks, make thee high heaps: set thy heart towards the highway, even the way which thou wentest; turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. World English Bible “Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities. Literal Translations Literal Standard Version“Set up signs for yourself, "" Make heaps for yourself, "" Set your heart to the highway, the way you went, "" Turn back, O virgin of Israel, "" Turn back to these cities of yours. Young's Literal Translation Set up for thee signs, make for thee heaps, Set thy heart to the highway, the way thou wentest, Turn back, O virgin of Israel, Turn back unto these thy cities. Smith's Literal Translation Set up to thee thorns, set to thee bitternesses: place thy heart to the highway, the way thou wentest: turn back, O virgin of Israel, turn back to these thy cities. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleSet thee up a watchtower, make to thee bitterness: direct thy heart into the right way, wherein thou hast walked: return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities. Catholic Public Domain Version Establish a watchtower for yourself. Place yourself in bitterness. Direct your heart into the upright way, in which you used to walk. Return, return, O virgin of Israel, to these your cities! New American Bible Set up road markers, put up signposts; Turn your attention to the highway, the road you walked. Turn back, virgin Israel, turn back to these your cities. New Revised Standard Version Set up road markers for yourself, make yourself signposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleSet up a standard for yourself, and dwell in the wilderness; set your heart towards the straight highway; repent, O virgin of Israel, says the LORD, and dwell in these your cities. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Raise up for yourself a standard and dwell in the wilderness. Give your heart to the straight way. Return, virgin of Israel, says LORD JEHOVAH, and dwell in these your cities OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Set thee up waymarks, Make thee guide-posts; Set thy heart toward the high-way, Even the way by which thou wentest; Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these thy cities. Brenton Septuagint Translation Prepare thyself, O Sion; execute vengeance; look to thy ways: return, O virgin of Israel, by the way by which thou wentest, return mourning to thy cities. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Mourning Turned to Joy…20Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD. 21“Set up the roadmarks, establish the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours. 22How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”… Cross References Isaiah 35:8 And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it. Isaiah 40:3-4 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert. / Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain. Isaiah 62:10 Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations! Hosea 2:6-7 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way. / She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’ Hosea 14:1 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. Deuteronomy 30:1-3 “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, / and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, / then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you. Zechariah 10:9 Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return. Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land. Isaiah 11:16 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt. Micah 2:12 I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng. Luke 15:18-20 I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. / I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’ / So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. Matthew 3:3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’” John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Hebrews 12:13 Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed. Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away, Treasury of Scripture Set you up markers, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. Set thee. Isaiah 57:14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. Isaiah 62:10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. set thine. Jeremiah 50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 1 Chronicles 29:3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, turn. Jeremiah 51:6,50 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence… Isaiah 48:20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob. Isaiah 52:11,12 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD… O. Jeremiah 31:4 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. Jeremiah 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: Zechariah 10:9 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. Jump to Previous Attention Cities Consider Direct Guiding Heaps Heart High Highway High-Way Israel Mind Note Pillars Road Signs Towards Towns Turn Virgin Way WentestJump to Next Attention Cities Consider Direct Guiding Heaps Heart High Highway High-Way Israel Mind Note Pillars Road Signs Towards Towns Turn Virgin Way WentestJeremiah 31 1. The restoration of Israel.10. The publication thereof. 15. Rahel mourning is comforted. 18. Ephraim repenting is brought home again. 22. Christ is promised. 27. His care over the church. 31. His new covenant. 35. The stability, 38. and amplitude of the church. Set up the roadmarks The Hebrew word for "roadmarks" is "צִיּוּן" (tsiyun), which can also mean a sign or a monument. In ancient times, roadmarks were essential for travelers to find their way, especially in the vast and often featureless landscapes of the Near East. Spiritually, this phrase calls believers to establish clear markers in their lives that guide them back to God’s path. It suggests intentionality in spiritual journeying, ensuring that one does not stray from the divine direction. establish the signposts Keep the highway in mind the road you have traveled Return, O Virgin of Israel return to these cities of yours Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew “Set upהַצִּ֧יבִי (haṣ·ṣî·ḇî) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 5324: To take one's stand, stand the roadmarks, צִיֻּנִ֗ים (ṣî·yu·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 6725: A monumental, guiding pillar establish שִׂ֤מִי (śi·mî) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set the signposts. תַּמְרוּרִ֔ים (tam·rū·rîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 8564: An erection, pillar Keep the highway לַֽמְסִלָּ֖ה (lam·sil·lāh) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 4546: A thoroughfare, a viaduct, a staircase in mind, שִׁ֣תִי (ši·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 7896: To put, set the road דֶּ֣רֶךְ (de·reḵ) Noun - common singular Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action you have traveled. הָלָ֑כְתְּ (hā·lā·ḵət) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk Return, שׁ֚וּבִי (ū·ḇî) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again O Virgin בְּתוּלַ֣ת (bə·ṯū·laṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 1330: A virgin, sometimes, a bride Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc return שֻׁ֖בִי (šu·ḇî) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to these אֵֽלֶּה׃ (’êl·leh) Pronoun - common plural Strong's 428: These, those cities of yours. עָרַ֥יִךְ (‘ā·ra·yiḵ) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular Strong's 5892: Excitement Links Jeremiah 31:21 NIVJeremiah 31:21 NLT Jeremiah 31:21 ESV Jeremiah 31:21 NASB Jeremiah 31:21 KJV Jeremiah 31:21 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 31:21 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 31:21 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 31:21 French Bible Jeremiah 31:21 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 31:21 Set up road signs make guideposts (Jer.) |