³ then he will restore your fortunes,^[a](A) have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.^(B)

³ for look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will restore the fortunes^[a] of my people Israel and Judah,”^(A) says the Lord. “I will restore them to the land I gave to their ancestors and they will possess it.”