21 “Set up roadmarks for yourself,
Place for yourself guideposts;
aSet your heart to the highway,
The way by which you went.
bReturn, O virgin of Israel,
Return to these your cities.
22 How long will you go here and there,
O afaithless daughter?
For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth—
A woman will encompass a man.”
23 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I areturn their fortunes,
‘Yahweh bless you, O babode of righteousness,
O choly hill!’
24 And Judah and all its cities will ainhabit it together, the farmer and they who go about with flocks. 25 aFor I satisfy the weary soul and fill up every soul who wastes away.” 26 At this I aawoke and looked, and my bsleep was pleasant to me.
The New Covenant
27 “Behold, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will asow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast. 28 And it will be that as I have awatched over them to buproot, to tear down, to pull down, to destroy, and to bring calamity, so I will watch over them to cbuild and to plant,” declares Yahweh.
29 “In those days they will not say again,
‘aThe fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
30 But aeveryone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.