⁴³ And fields will be bought in this land ^(A)of which you say, “It is desolate, without man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

¹¹ Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the ^(A)whole house of Israel. They indeed say, ^(B)‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ ¹² Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, ^(C)O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and ^(D)bring you into the land of Israel. ¹³ Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves. ¹⁴ I ^(E)will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,” says the Lord.’ ”

¹⁵ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Houses and fields and vineyards shall be ^(A)possessed again in this land.” ’

³⁶ “Now therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

¹⁰ “Thus says the Lord: ‘Again there shall be heard in this place—^(A)of which you say, “It is desolate, without man and without beast”—in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,