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My special people of Israel,
    I will make you strong again.
You will be so happy that you dance,
    as people make music with tambourines.
You will again plant vines
    on the hills in Samaria.
Yes, farmers will plant vines
    and they will eat their fruit.
There will be a time when guards will call out,
    as they watch for danger in the hills of Ephraim.
They will shout, “Let us go up to Zion,
    to worship the Lord our God.” ’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 31:6 Samaria and Ephraim were in the north kingdom of the Israelites. The Assyrians had taken them away as prisoners before the Babylonians took away the people of Judah, the south kingdom.