³ For behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that ^(A)I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ^(B)‘And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.’ ”

^42 (A)Then you shall know that I am the Lord, ^(B)when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I raised My hand in an oath to give to your fathers.

¹⁸ “Thus says the Lord:

¹⁵ but, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the ^(A)north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For ^(B)I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.

^26 (A)then I will ^(B)cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.’ ”

⁴⁴ Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in ^(A)the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the ^[a]lowland, and in the cities of the ^[b]South; for ^(B)I will cause their captives to return,’ says the Lord.”

⁸ Because finding fault with them, He says: ^(A)“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—