¹⁴ “Therefore, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought up the Israelis from the land of Egypt.’ ¹⁵ Rather it will be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelis up from the land of the north and from all the lands to which the Lord^[a] had banished them.’ I’ll bring them back to their land, which I gave to their ancestors.

¹⁶ “I’m about to send many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they’ll catch them. Afterwards, I’ll send for many hunters and they’ll hunt for them on every mountain and hill and in the crevices of the rocks. ¹⁷ For I am watching all their ways; they are not hidden from my sight.^[b] Their iniquity is not concealed from my eyes. ¹⁸ First I’ll repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the dead bodies of their detestable images, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”^[c]