⁷ “So the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when people will not say again: ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought Israel out of Egypt….’ ⁸ But people will say something new: ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the ·descendants of Israel [^Lseed of the house of Israel] from the land of the north [^CBabylon] and from all the countries where he had ·sent [driven] them away….’ Then the people of Israel will live in their own land [16:14–15].”