⁴³ Once more fields will be bought^(A) in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolate^(B) waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.’ ⁴⁴ Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds^(C) will be signed, sealed and witnessed^(D) in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev,^(E) because I will restore^(F) their fortunes,^[a] declares the Lord.”