All songs gone from Ipod!

I have no idea what i did, but my ipod is totally empty, but all my songs are still in itunes, i can see and listen to them, but when i connect the ipod it says " Songs on the ipod'Owners ipod'cannot be updated because all of the playlists selected for syncing no longer exist"...Can anyone help me please???

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