The Nation’s Return to the Land

¹⁴ Therefore^[a] look, days are coming,’ declares^[b] Yahweh, ‘and it will no longer be said, “As Yahweh lives,^[c] who led up the Israelites^[d] from the land of Egypt,” ¹⁵ but only^[e] “As Yahweh lives,^[f] who led up the Israelites^[g] from the land of the north, and from all the lands where he had driven them,” for I will bring them back to their ground that I gave to their ancestors.^{[h] 16} Look, I am sending for many fishermen,’ declares^[i] Yahweh, ‘and they will fish them out, and afterward^[j] I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from the clefts of the cliffs. ¹⁷ For my eyes are on all their ways, they are not hidden from before me,^[k] and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes. ¹⁸ And I will first doubly repay^[l] their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodies^[m] of their abhorrences, and with their abominations they have filled up my inheritance.’”