The Restoration of Jacob

14 ^(A)For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and ^(B)will set them in their own land, and ^(C)sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

¹⁷ Cry out again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(A)My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, ^(B)and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again ^(C)choose Jerusalem.’”

^22 (A)Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and ^(B)to entreat the favor of the Lord. ²³ Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ^(C)ten men ^(D)from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for ^(E)we have heard that God is with you.’”

¹² remember ^(A)that you were at that time separated from Christ, ^(B)alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to ^(C)the covenants of promise, ^(D)having no hope and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were ^(E)far off have been brought near ^(F)by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For ^(G)he himself is our peace, ^(H)who has made us both one and has broken down ^(I)in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility ¹⁵ by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ^(J)ordinances, that he might create in himself one ^(K)new man in place of the two, so making peace, ¹⁶ and might ^(L)reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. ¹⁷ And he came and ^(M)preached peace to you who were ^(N)far off and peace to those who were ^(O)near. ¹⁸ For ^(P)through him we both have ^(Q)access in ^(R)one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ So then you are no longer ^(S)strangers and aliens,^[a] but you are ^(T)fellow citizens with the saints and ^(U)members of the household of God,

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name ^(A)will be^[a] great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name ^(B)will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.

^14 (A)Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them ^(B)a people for his name. ¹⁵ And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,

^11 (A)And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people. ^(B)And I will dwell in your midst, and ^(C)you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. ^12 (D)And the Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again ^(E)choose Jerusalem.”