⁸ “‘You, mountains of Israel, will produce your branches^(A) and bear your fruit for my people Israel, since their arrival is near. ⁹ Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you,^(B) and you will be tilled and sown. ¹⁰ I will fill you with people, with the whole house of Israel in its entirety.^(C) The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. ¹¹ I will fill you with people and animals,^(D) and they will increase and be fruitful. I will make you inhabited as you once were and make you better off than you were before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.^{(E) 12} I will cause people, my people Israel, to walk on you; they will possess you,^(F) and you will be their inheritance. You will no longer deprive them of their children.