¹⁸ When your people^[a] say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what these things mean?’ ¹⁹ tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the branch of Joseph that is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will place them on the stick of Judah^[b] and make them into one stick—they will be one in my hand.’^{[c] 20} The sticks you write on will be in your hand in front of them.