Jeremiah 31:5
3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
4 Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
6 For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
7 For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
- KJV
- Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
- WEB
- Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit.
- ASV
- Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit thereof].
- DARBY
- Thou shalt again plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat the fruit.
- BLB
- Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; planters will plant, and they will [eat] freely.
- ÅB
- Enda en gang skal du plante vingårder på Samarias fjell; de som planter dem, skal også ta dem i bruk.
- OTB
- "På nytt skal du plante vingårder på Samarias høyder; bøndene skal plante dem og nyte frukten."
- B1930
- Ennu en gang skal du plante vingårder på Samarias fjell; de som planter dem, skal også ta dem i bruk.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Amos 9:14
I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
Read in contextMicah 4:4
And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
Read in contextIsaiah 65:21–22
They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Read in contextLeviticus 19:23–25
When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:30
You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
Read in contextEzekiel 36:8
But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
Read in contextZechariah 3:10
On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, you will each invite your neighbor to sit under your own vine and fig tree.’”
Read in context1 Samuel 21:5
David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”
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