¹⁰ “When you tell these people all this and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?’^{(A) 11} then say to them, ‘It is because your ancestors forsook me,’ declares the Lord, ‘and followed other gods and served and worshiped^(B) them. They forsook me and did not keep my law.^{(C) 12} But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors.^(D) See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts^(E) instead of obeying me. ¹³ So I will throw you out of this land^(F) into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known,^(G) and there you will serve other gods^(H) day and night, for I will show you no favor.’^(I)

¹⁴ “However, the days are coming,”^(J) declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’^{(K) 15} but it will be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north^(L) and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’^(M) For I will restore^(N) them to the land I gave their ancestors.^(O)

¹⁶ “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.^(P) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt^(Q) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.^{(R) 17} My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden^(S) from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes.^{(T) 18} I will repay^(U) them double^(V) for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land^(W) with the lifeless forms of their vile images^(X) and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.^(Y)”^(Z)