¹⁰ I will bring them back from Egypt
    and gather them from Assyria.^(A)
I will bring them to Gilead^(B) and Lebanon,
    and there will not be room^(C) enough for them.

¹¹ They will come from Egypt,
    trembling like sparrows,
    from Assyria,^(A) fluttering like doves.^(B)
I will settle them in their homes,”^(C)
    declares the Lord.

¹¹ The day for building your walls^(A) will come,
    the day for extending your boundaries.
¹² In that day people will come to you
    from Assyria^(B) and the cities of Egypt,
even from Egypt to the Euphrates
    and from sea to sea
    and from mountain to mountain.^(C)

²⁰ This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
    will possess the land as far as Zarephath;^(A)
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    will possess the towns of the Negev.^(B)

¹⁹ But I will bring^(A) Israel back to their own pasture,
    and they will graze on Carmel and Bashan;
their appetite will be satisfied^(B)
    on the hills^(C) of Ephraim and Gilead.^(D)

“Though you are like Gilead^(A) to me,
    like the summit of Lebanon,^(B)
I will surely make you like a wasteland,^(C)
    like towns not inhabited.