The Nation’s Return to the Land

14 Therefore[fn] look, daysare coming,’ declares[fn] Yahweh, ‘and it will no longer be said, “As Yahweh lives,[fn] who led up theIsraelites[fn] from the land of Egypt,” 15 but only[fn] “As Yahweh lives,[fn] who led up theIsraelites[fn] fromthe 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.[fn] 16 Look, I am sending for many fishermen,’ declares[fn] Yahweh, ‘and they will fish them out, andafterward[fn] 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,[fn] and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes. 18 And I will first doubly repay[fn] their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodies[fn] of their abhorrences, andwith their abominations they have filled up my inheritance.’ ”

• 19 O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of distress,
• to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth,
  • and they will say, “Our ancestors[fn] have inherited only lies,[fn]
  • vanity, and there is no profit in them.
  • 20  Yet they are not gods!”
  • 21 [fn] look, I am about to let them know, this time I am going to let them know
• my[fn] and my might,
  • and they will know that my name is Yahweh.”