then the Lord your God (A)will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will (B)gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

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14 I will be found by you, declares the Lord, (A)and I will restore your fortunes and (B)gather you from all the nations and all the places (C)where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

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The Lord (A)builds up Jerusalem;
    he (B)gathers the outcasts of Israel.

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24 (A)I will take you (B)from the nations and gather you from all the countries and (C)bring you into your own land.

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32 but, though he (A)cause grief, (B)he will have compassion
    (C)according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

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12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on (A)a day of clouds and (B)thick darkness. 13 And I will bring them out from the peoples (C)and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on (D)the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

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31 so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now[a] receive mercy.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:31 Some manuscripts omit now

22 (A)The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;[a]
    (B)his mercies never come to an end;

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:22 Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Because of the steadfast love of the Lord, we are not cut off

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, (A)I will save my people (B)from the east country and from the west country, and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. (C)And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, (D)in faithfulness and in righteousness.”

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10 “Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
    and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will (A)gather him,
    and will keep him (B)as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

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45 For their sake he (A)remembered his covenant,
    and (B)relented according to (C)the abundance of his steadfast love.
46 He caused them to be (D)pitied
    by all those who held them captive.

47 (E)Save us, O Lord our God,
    and (F)gather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
    and glory in your praise.

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26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,

(A)“The Deliverer will come (B)from Zion,
    he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;

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23 And (A)even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

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37 (A)Behold, I will gather them from all the countries (B)to which I drove them in (C)my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, (D)and I will make them dwell in safety. 38 (E)And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 39 (F)I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, (G)for their own good and the good of their children after them. 40 (H)I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. (I)And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. 41 (J)I will rejoice in doing them good, (K)and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.

42 “For thus says the Lord: (L)Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them. 43 (M)Fields shall be bought in this land (N)of which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; (O)it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ 44 Fields shall be bought for money, and (P)deeds shall be signed and (Q)sealed and (R)witnessed, (S)in the land of Benjamin, (T)in the places about Jerusalem, (U)and in the cities of Judah, (V)in the cities of the hill country, (W)in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for (X)I will restore their fortunes, declares the Lord.”

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The Lord God,
    (A)who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,
(B)“I will gather yet others to him
    besides those already gathered.”

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Restore Our Fortunes, O Lord

A Song of (A)Ascents.

126 When the Lord (B)restored the fortunes of Zion,
    we were like those who (C)dream.
Then our (D)mouth was filled with laughter,
    and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
    (E)“The Lord has done great things for them.”
The Lord has done great things for us;
    we are glad.

Restore our fortunes, O Lord,
    like streams in the Negeb!

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The Proclamation of Cyrus

(A)In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, (B)that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so (C)that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and (D)he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel—(E)he is the God who is in Jerusalem. And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”

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