God Will Restore Israel

Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say,‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites {up} out of the land of Egypt.’ 15 Instead [they will say]‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites {up} out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.

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But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.

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For My eyes [are] on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes. 18 And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

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O LORD, my strength and my fortress,

my refuge in the day of distress,

the nations will come to You

from the ends of the earth, and they will say,

“Our fathers inherited nothing but lies,

worthless idols of no benefit at all.

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Can man make gods for himself?

Such are not gods!”

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“Therefore behold, I will inform them,

and this time I will make them know

My power and My might;

then they will know

that My name is the LORD.[’’] 17