¹⁴ “However, take note! The days are coming”—the Lord’s declaration—“when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’^{(A) 15} but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north^(B) and from all the other lands where He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their ancestors.^(C)

Punishment of Exile

¹⁶ “I am about to send for many fishermen”^(D)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks, ¹⁷ for My gaze takes in all their ways.^(E) They are not concealed from Me, and their guilt is not hidden from My sight. ¹⁸ I will first repay them double for their guilt^(F) and sin because they have polluted My land. They have filled My inheritance with the lifelessness of their detestable and abhorrent idols.”