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The Restoration of Israel

10 [a]Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”(A) 11 The people of Judah and the people of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head, and they shall rise up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.(B)

[b]Say to your brothers, “Ammi,”[c] and to your sisters, “Ruhamah.”[d]

Footnotes

  1. 1.10 2.1 in Heb
  2. 2.1 2.3 in Heb
  3. 2.1 That is, my people
  4. 2.1 That is, pitied

10 [a]“Yet the time will come when Israel’s people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said, ‘You are children of the living God.’ 11 Then the people of Judah and Israel will unite together. They will choose one leader for themselves, and they will return from exile together. What a day that will be—the day of Jezreel[b]—when God will again plant his people in his land.

[c]“In that day you will call your brothers Ammi—‘My people.’ And you will call your sisters Ruhamah—‘The ones I love.’

Footnotes

  1. 1:10 Verses 1:10-11 are numbered 2:1-2 in Hebrew text.
  2. 1:11 Jezreel means “God plants.”
  3. 2:1 Verses 2:1-23 are numbered 2:3-25 in Hebrew text.