¹² Therefore ^(A)prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^(B)I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And ^(C)I will bring you into the land of Israel.

¹⁶ For ^(A)the Lord himself will descend ^(B)from heaven ^(C)with a cry of command, with the voice of ^(D)an archangel, and ^(E)with the sound of the trumpet of God. And ^(F)the dead in Christ will rise first.

^25 (A)They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there ^(B)forever, and David my servant shall be their prince ^(C)forever.

²¹ then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^(A)I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and ^(B)bring them to their own land.

^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.