^3 (A)Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family ^(B)in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.

⁶ And in those days ^(A)people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

¹⁴ I will be found by you, declares the Lord, ^(A)and I will restore your fortunes and ^(B)gather you from all the nations and all the places ^(C)where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

⁸ but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he^[a] had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”

^3 (A)Then I will gather the remnant of my flock ^(B)out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, ^(C)and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

^4 (A)If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.

^3 (A)Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, ^(B)for it is better for me to die than to live.”

⁷ To you, ^(A)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, ^(B)those who are near and ^(C)those who are far away, in ^(D)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of ^(E)the treachery that they have committed against you.

Repentance and Forgiveness

30 ^(A)“And ^(B)when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and ^(C)you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,