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AMO EN_UST en_English_ltr Tue Jan 12 2021 12:14:48 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) tc

1 This is the message that Yahweh gave to me, Amos. I am a man who raises sheep, and I am from the village of Tekoa. Yahweh showed me in a vision this message about Israel during the time when Uzziah was the king of Judah and Jeroboam, the son of Jehoash, was the king of Israel. This was two years before the great earthquake.

2 This is the message:

Yahweh is speaking powerfully, like the roar of a lion,

from Zion, in the middle of Jerusalem.

He is causing the pastures where shepherds take care of their sheep to dry up,

and even the forests on the top of Mount Carmel will wither.

3 This is what Yahweh says:

“The people of Damascus have sinned again and again,

so I will certainly punish them and will not change my mind about it,

because they cruelly attacked the people of the region of Gilead,

destroying them as people crush grain with iron-toothed threshing tools.

4 So I will send fire to destroy that place, including the palace that their king Hazael built,

and it will burn down the fortresses where his son, their king Ben-Hadad, has his armies.

5 I will smash the gate bars that protect the city of Damascus,

and I will get rid of the one who sits on the throne in the Valley of Aven

and the king who rules in the region of Beth Eden.

The people of Aram will become captives and will go to the land of Kir,”

says Yahweh.

6 This is what Yahweh says:

“The people of the city of Gaza have sinned again and again,

so I will certainly punish them and will not change my mind about it,

because they captured whole people groups and took them away

in order to sell them as slaves to the people of Edom.

7 So I will send fire to destroy the walls of Gaza,

and it will burn down the fortresses of that city.

8 I will get rid of the one who sits on the throne in the city of Ashdod

and the king who rules in the city of Ashkelon.

I will also powerfully punish the people of the city of Ekron,

and all the people of the region of Philistia who are still alive will die,”

says my Lord Yahweh.

9 This is what Yahweh says:

“The people of the city of Tyre have sinned again and again,

so I will certainly punish them and will not change my mind about it,

because they also captured whole people groups and took them away to Edom,

and they ignored the treaty that they had made with another nation.

10 So I will send fire to destroy the walls of Tyre,

and it will burn down the fortresses of that city.”

11 This is what Yahweh says:

“The people of Edom have sinned again and again,

so I will certainly punish them and will not change my mind about it,

because they attacked the people of Israel, who descended from Esau’s brother Jacob, and killed them with swords.

They did not act mercifully toward them at all.

They were constantly wrathful to the people of Israel,

and they kept encouraging each other to stay angry with the people of Israel always.

12 So I will send fire to destroy the region of Teman,

and it will burn down the fortresses of the city of Bozrah.”

13 This is what Yahweh says:

“The people of Ammon have sinned again and again,

so I will certainly punish them and will not change my mind about it,

because their soldiers even ripped open the pregnant women of the region of Gilead

when they attacked it in order to enlarge their own territory.

14 So I will start a fire that will destroy the walls of the city of Rabbah,

and it will burn down the fortresses of that city.

During that battle, the enemies will shout loudly.

They will come as quickly and violently as a strong windstorm.

15 Then the king of Ammon will become a captive and will go to another country,

and his officials will go with him,”

says Yahweh.

2 This is what Yahweh says: “The people of Moab have sinned again and again,

so I will certainly punish them and will not change my mind about it, because they burned the bones of the king of Edom until only lime remained. 2 So I will send a fire to destroy the nation of Moab,

and it will burn down the fortresses of the city of Kirioth. Many people of Moab will die while soldiers shout, blow trumpets, and destroy Moab. 3 I will get rid of the ruler of Moab, and I will kill all of Moab’s leaders along with him. That is what I, Yahweh, say.”

4 This is what Yahweh says: “The people of Judah have sinned again and again, so I will certainly punish them and will not change my mind about it, because they have rejected the instructions that I, Yahweh, gave them, and they have not obeyed my commands. The false gods that they worship have deceived them, the same false gods that their ancestors chose to worship. 5 So I will send a fire to destroy the nation of Judah, and it will completely burn down the fortresses of the city of Jerusalem.”

6 This is what Yahweh says: “The people of Israel have sinned again and again, so I will certainly punish them and will not change my mind about it, because they sell good people in order to get silver, and they sell needy people to get a pair of sandals. 7 They oppress poor people as though they are crushing them into the dirt, and they are unjust to people who are suffering. A man and his father both have sexual relations with the same servant girl, and so they dishonor me, the holy God. 8 They take the cloaks from poor people as a guarantee that those people would repay what they had borrowed. Then, instead of returning them at the end of the day, they lie down on them beside the altars where they worship. They force people to pay fines to them, and then use the money to buy wine that they drink in the temple of their God.

9 But I am the one who destroyed the Amorite people group on behalf of your ancestors, even though those people were very tall like cedar trees and very strong like oak trees. I destroyed them completely. 10 I am the one who brought you Israelite people from being slaves in the land of Egypt, and then I led your ancestors through the wilderness for forty years, in order that I could give you the land of the Amorite people as your own. 11 Over the years, I chose some of your young men to become prophets, and others to be Nazirites. You Israelite people certainly know that this is true! This is what I, Yahweh, declare. 12 But you forced those dedicated men to drink wine, and you commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Do not tell people the messages that Yahweh gives you!’

13 So now I will crush you, just as a cart loaded with grain crushes whatever it rolls over. 14 At that time, even people who can run fast will not be able to escape, and even strong people will not be able to use their strength to save themselves, and warriors will not be able to rescue themselves. 15 Those who shoot arrows will not be able to stand and fight, and those who can run fast will not be able to escape, and those who ride horses will not be able to save themselves. 16 At that time, even the bravest warriors will throw down their weapons and run away without them. That is what I, Yahweh, declare.”

3 You people of Israel, listen to this message that Yahweh has spoken against you. He is speaking against all the people whom he brought up out of the land of Egypt. He says this: 2 “From among all the families of people on the earth, I chose only you to belong to me. So because you have sinned, I will punish you.”

3 Just as two people do not travel together unless they have agreed to do that, 4 and just as a lion does not roar in the forest unless it has caught an animal to eat, and a young lion does not growl in its den unless it has caught something, 5 and just as a bird does not get caught in a trap on the ground unless someone has set a trap for it, and a trap does not snap shut unless an animal has triggered it, 6 and just as the people in a city become afraid when someone blows a trumpet to warn them that enemies are coming, and just as it is Yahweh who causes a city to experience disaster, 7 in the same way, the Lord Yahweh never does anything without first revealing his plans to his servants the prophets. 8 When a lion roars, everyone is afraid; similarly, when the Lord Yahweh speaks, the prophets must proclaim what he says.

9 Yahweh says, “Announce this to the rulers who live in the fortresses in the city of Ashdod and to the rulers in the land of Egypt. Say to them, ‘Gather together on the hills around the city of Samaria, and see how the people there are causing great confusion, and how they are oppressing other people.’\” 10 Yahweh declares, “The people who live in Samaria do not know how to do what is right. They violently rob other people, and they fill their fortresses with the things that they steal.”

11 So this is what the Lord Yahweh says: “An enemy army will come and surround your land. They will tear down your fortifications, and they will carry away the valuable things in your fortresses.” 12 This is what Yahweh says: “When a lion attacks a sheep, sometimes a shepherd can grab from the lion only two legs of the sheep or a piece of its ear. Similarly, only a few of you people of Israel who live in Samaria will survive, and you will save only a corner of a bed or a piece of a couch.”

13 The Lord Yahweh, God who commands the armies of angels, says this: “Listen, and warn the descendants of Jacob. 14 On the day when I punish the people of Israel for the sins that they have committed, I will also destroy the altars at Bethel. I will cut off the horns that are on the corners of the altar, and they will fall to the ground. 15 I will tear down the houses where people live in the winter and the houses where they live in the summer; I will destroy all their houses. I will destroy the beautiful houses that they have decorated with ivory. That will surely happen, because I, Yahweh, have said it.”

4 Listen to this message, you wealthy women of the city of Samaria! You have indulged yourselves and grown fat, just as the cattle in the region of Bashan grow fat.

You oppress poor people,

and you cause needy people to suffer.

You say to your husbands,

“Bring us more wine to drink!”

2 But Yahweh our Lord has solemnly promised this, and because he is holy, he will certainly do what he says:

“The time is coming when your enemies will capture all of you and drag you away, as easily as someone catches fish with hooks.

They will drag away even the last of you with fishhooks.

3 Each of you women will go straight out through the gaps where your enemies have broken through your city walls,

and your enemies will force you to go out toward the mountain of Harmon.

I, Yahweh, declare that this will happen.

4 I am not really telling you to do this, but here is what you are actually doing: You go to the towns of Bethel and Gilgal, where many people worship me, and there you sin against me again and again!

Every morning you offer your sacrifices there,

and every third day you bring me a tenth of your crops.

5 You burn bread that contains yeast as an offering to thank me,

and you loudly announce the offerings that you bring to me willingly.

You brag about all these offerings,

because that is what you Israelite people love to do, even though you do it to impress others and not to please me.

I, Yahweh your Lord, declare this.

6 “I am the one who caused you to have no food at all in any of your cities and towns,

yet you did not stop sinning and come back to me. I, Yahweh, declare this.

7 I am also the one who held back the rain from you when it was still three months before the time to harvest your crops, when your crops needed rain the most.

Sometimes I sent rain on one town

and held it back from another town.

Rain fell on one field,

but no rain fell on another field, so the crops there dried up.

8 People would stagger from one town to another town to find water,

but they could not get enough water to drink,

yet you did not stop sinning and come back to me. I, Yahweh, declare this.

9 I struck your crops, so that they dried up and rotted.

Locusts ate up everything in your many gardens and vineyards and on your fig trees and olive trees,

yet you did not stop sinning and come back to me. I, Yahweh, declare this.

10 I sent diseases among you, like the diseases that I sent to the people of Egypt long ago.

I caused your enemies to kill your young men in wars, and I let your enemies capture your horses.

I made the camps where your soldiers died stink with the smell of their dead bodies,

yet you did not stop sinning and come back to me. I, Yahweh, declare this.

11 I destroyed some of you, just as I destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah long ago.

Those of you who survived were like a burning stick that someone grabs out of a fire before it burns up completely,

yet you did not stop sinning and come back to me. I, Yahweh, declare this.

12 So now, you people of Israel, this is what I am going to do to you. And because I am going to do this to you, prepare to meet me, your God, when I come to judge you!”

13 Listen! Yahweh is the one who formed the mountains and who created the wind.

He reveals to people what he is thinking.

He turns the morning light into darkness.

He rules over the whole earth, even the highest places.

He is Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies; that is his name!

5 You people of Israel, listen to this funeral song that I will sing about you:

2 “You are like a young woman,

but in spite of that, you will certainly be struck down

and you will never get up again!

You will lie on the ground, abandoned,

and there will be no one to help you stand up.”

3 This is what Yahweh the Lord has declared to the people of Israel:

“When your enemies attack you,

and when a thousand of your soldiers go into battle,

only a hundred will survive.

When a hundred soldiers march out from a city to fight,

only ten will remain alive.”

4 This is what Yahweh has declared to the people of Israel:

“You Israelite people, return to me!

If you do that, you will continue to remain alive.

5 Do not go to Bethel to seek my help;

do not go to Gilgal to worship;

do not go to Beersheba,

because your enemies will drag away the people of Gilgal to other countries,

and they will completely destroy Bethel.”

6 So come to Yahweh;

if you do that, you will remain alive.

If you do not do that,

Yahweh will come down on you descendants of Joseph like a fire;

that fire will burn everything in Bethel

and nothing will be able to save that town.

7 You people distort what is right; you make others think that it is something very bitter;

you treat good things as though they were evil.

8 God created all the groups of stars

and he put them in their places.

Each morning he causes the darkness to become the dawn,

and each evening he causes the daylight to become darkness.

He scoops up water from the oceans to become clouds,

and then he dumps the water from the clouds onto the earth.

The one who does those things is Yahweh.

9 He brings sudden destruction on the rulers and the wealthy landowners,

and he destroys their fortified cities.

10 You hate those who challenge anyone who tries to make unjust decisions;

you hate those who tell the truth in your courts.

11 Doom is coming on you wealthy landowners and nobles because you oppress poor people and force them to pay hefty taxes.

You have built big stone mansions for yourselves,

but you will not be able to live in them.

You have planted delightful vineyards,

but there will not be any grapes for you to harvest to make wine.

12 For I know all of your sins

and the terrible crimes that you have committed.

You oppress righteous people,

and you accept bribes.

You do not allow judges to treat poor people justly.

13 This is a time when many people do evil things,

so people who have good sense say nothing at all.

14 In order to remain alive,

you must stop doing what is wrong, and start doing what is right.

If you do that, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, will be with you

as you claim that he always is.

15 Love what is good, and hate what is evil!

Try to cause judges in your courts to make decisions that are right!

If you do those things, perhaps Yahweh, commander of the angel armies,

will act mercifully toward you descendants of Joseph who are still alive.

16 Therefore, Yahweh will punish you for your sins! This is what Yahweh, the Lord, the commander of angel armies, has solemnly declared:

“People will be wailing loudly in every street,

and people will cry in horror in every plaza at the complete desolation.

Farmers will leave their fields to come and weep,

along with the other official mourners who will wail for those who have died.

17 People will be wailing in your vineyards,

because I will punish you severely,” declares Yahweh.

18 Terrible things will happen to you who want Yahweh to punish his enemies,

because that will be a day of darkness, not of light.

19 At that time, when you try to run from a lion,

you will face a bear.

When you run into your house to be safe,

and you put your hand on the wall,

a snake will bite it.

20 That day, when he punishes people, will certainly be awful, like a dark night

without even a little bit of light.

21 Yahweh says, “I hate your religious celebrations

and the times when you gather to worship me;

I detest them all.

22 Even if you bring me offerings to burn on the altar and offerings of grain,

I will no longer accept them.

Even if you bring me offerings to restore fellowship with me,

I will not pay any attention to them.

23 So stop singing noisy songs!

I will not listen when you play harps.

24 Instead, act justly and righteously; you should do this and never stop;

if you do, it will be like the water in a river that never stops flowing.

25 You Israelite people, your ancestors wandered through the wilderness for forty years;

and during that time, they never brought any sacrifices and offerings to me!

26 But you carried the two idols that you have made for yourselves—

Sikkuth, the god whom you call ‘king,’

and Kaiwan, the image of the star that you worship.

27 For I will now force you to go to a country that is far beyond Damascus!” Yahweh has declared this; He is the commander of angel armies.

6 Terrible things will happen to you people in Jerusalem who are not worried about anything,

and also to you leaders who live on the hill of the city of Samaria, you who think that you are safe.

You call yourselves the most important people in the world,

and you are the leaders to whom Israelites go for help.

2 You tell them, “Just go to the city of Kalneh and look at it.

Then go to see the great city Hamath

and to Gath in Philistia and look at it. They are all prosperous.

Now your lands are better than those places, and your two countries—Judah and Samaria—are bigger. So you are safe.”

3 Terrible things will happen to you leaders! You are trying to avoid thinking about the coming time when you will experience disasters,

when your enemies will violently attack you.

4 You recline on couches decorated with expensive ivory

and lounge on padded beds.

You eat the tender meat of lambs

and fat calves.

5 You create new songs as if you had nothing better to do,

and you play them on your harps like King David did.

6 You drink entire bowlfuls of wine,

and you put expensive oils on your bodies,

but you do not grieve about our country of Israel.

7 Therefore judgment is coming, and coming soon. Your feasting and lounging on soft couches will end,

and you will be among the first ones to be forced by your enemies to go into exile.

8 Yahweh the Lord, the commander of angel armies has solemnly declared that this will happen:

“I hate the people of Israel because they are very proud;

I detest their fortresses.

I will enable their enemies to capture their capital city

and everything in it.”

9 When that happens, if there are ten people in one house, they will all die. 10 If a relative who has the task of burning their corpses comes to the house and inquires of anyone who is still hiding there, “Is there anyone here with you?” and that person replies “No,” the one who inquired will say, “Be quiet! You must not call Yahweh’s attention to us by mentioning his name, or he may have a reason to kill us!”

11 Terrible things like that will happen because Yahweh has commanded that the large houses in Israel must be smashed into pieces,

and small houses must be smashed into tiny bits.

12 Horses certainly do not run on big rocks,

and certainly people cannot plow the rocks with oxen.

But you have distorted what is fair;

you have changed what is right, crippling and impoverishing the very ones the laws were meant to protect

13 You are proud because you have captured the town of Lo Debar,

and you have said, “We certainly took the town of Karnaim by our own power!”

14 Therefore, Yahweh, the commander of the angel armies, has declared this:

“Behold, I will cause a certain nation to attack you people of Israel;

they will oppress you all the way from Hamath Pass in the northwest

to the brook of the Arabah.

7 This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me in a vision: “Behold, he is going to send locusts to destroy our crops. It is going to happen right after the king’s share of the hay has been harvested and before the rest of the hay is ready to be harvested. 2 In the vision I saw those locusts come, and they ate everything that was green. Then I cried out, “Yahweh our Lord, please forgive us! We Israelite people are very helpless; how will we be able to survive?”

3 So Yahweh showed mercy and said, “That will not happen.”

4 Then this is what Yahweh our Lord showed me in another vision: Behold, Yahweh our Lord was calling to a fire to come and punish his people. In the vision I saw that the fire had dried up the water under all the land and also had burned everything on the land. 5 Then I cried out again, “Yahweh our Lord, I plead with you, please stop this! We Israelite people are very helpless; how will we be able to survive?”

6 So Yahweh showed mercy again, and Yahweh the Lord said, “That also will not happen.”

7 Then he showed me another vision. Behold, I saw the Lord standing beside a wall. It was very straight because it had been built using a plumb line. The Lord had the plumb line in his hand. 8 Yahweh asked me, “Amos, what do you see?”

I replied, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said, “Look, I am going to use a plumb line among my people, Israel, to show that they are crooked. I will not spare them from punishment any longer.

9 Then I will destroy the hilltop places where the descendants of Isaac worship idols.

And I will also lay waste to the other important holy places in Israel.

And I will raise up against King Jeroboam and all his descendants the swords of his enemies.

10 Then Amaziah the priest at Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, the king of Israel. In the message he said, “Amos is plotting against you among the Israelite people. I am worried that the people of this country will not know that he is wrong. 11 This is what Amos is saying:

‘Jeroboam will soon die, murdered by an enemy wielding a sword.

And the enemies of Israel will forcibly remove the people of Israel and send them away from their land.’ ”

12 Then Amaziah came to Amos and said, “You prophet, get out of here! Flee for your life back to the country of Judah! Do your prophesying there if you want to earn money! 13 Do not prophesy anymore here at Bethel, because this is where the national temple, the king’s temple, is!”

14 Amos replied to Amaziah, “I was previously not a prophet and my father was not a prophet; I was a shepherd. I also took care of sycamore fig trees. 15 But Yahweh took me away from taking care of my sheep, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go to Israel and prophesy to my people there!’

16 So now, listen to Yahweh’s judgment. “You said to me, ‘Do not prophesy and say that terrible things will happen to the people of Israel;

stop saying those things!’

17 Therefore, this is what Yahweh has declared about you:

‘Your wife will become a prostitute in this very city;

your sons and daughters will die because their enemies will kill them.

Others will measure your land

and divide it up among themselves;

and you yourself will die in a foreign country.

And the people of Israel will certainly have to leave their country and go into exile.’ ”

8 This is what Yahweh our Lord showed me in a vision: Look, a basket full of ripe fruit. 2 Yahweh asked me, “Amos, what do you see?”

I replied, “A basket full of ripe fruit.”

He said, “That indicates that it is almost the end for my Israelite people. I will not spare them from punishment any longer.

3 Soon the people will be wailing instead of singing in the temple. There will be corpses everywhere, and people will say nothing as they remove them.” Yahweh the Lord has declared this will happen.

4 Listen to your covenant crimes, rich rulers! When you cheat the poor, it is as though you people are trampling on the needy people,

and you destroy the poor people.

5 You habitually say,

“We wish that the new moon festival would end soon,

in order that we may sell our grain.

We wish that the Sabbath would end soon,

in order that we may sell our wheat.—

When we sell it,

we can charge a big price for it,

and we can cheat people by using scales that do not weigh correctly.

6 We will sell wheat that is no good.

Those who are needy and poor and who do not have money to buy things,

we will make them our slaves

by buying them with the little amount of silver with which we could buy a pair of sandals!”

7 Yahweh has declared, “I am the God you should worship. Surely I will never forget the evil things that you have done.

8 Because of those evil things, your country will certainly soon tremble,

and everyone who lives there will mourn.

It will repeatedly rise and fall

like the Nile River whose floodwaters overflow its banks

and then recede.

9 Yahweh the Lord has declared this will happen: "The time is coming soon when I will bring judgment.

I will cause the sun to set at noontime,

and the entire earth will be dark in the daytime.

10 I will cause your religious celebrations to become times when you mourn;

instead of singing, everyone will be weeping.

Because of what I will do, all of you will wear rough sackcloth and shave your heads

to show that you are sorrowing.

I will cause that time to be like when people mourn after an only son has died.

All of you will be very sad all of that time.”

11 Yahweh the Lord declares this:

“Behold, It will soon be the time when I will cause something to be very scarce throughout the country.

But it will not be a time when there is no food or water;

it will instead be a time when there will be no messages from me for anyone to hear.

12 People will stagger from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,

and wander from the north to the east,

searching for a message from me,

but there will not be any.

13 At that time,

even beautiful young women and strong young men will faint

because they will be very thirsty.

14 Those who make oaths using the name of their shameful god of Samaria,

and those who solemnly promise to do something using the name of the god of Dan,

and those who swear using the name of the god of Beersheba—

they will all die;

they will never get up again.”

9 The Lord appeared to me in another vision. I saw him standing next to the altar. He said,

“Strike the temple pillars until they fall down,

so that the building collapses and the foundation shakes.

Shatter them so that the pieces crush all the people who are inside.

Anyone who lives I will kill with the sword;

No one will succeed in running away; no one will escape.

2 If, in trying to escape, they dig deep pits in the ground, even all the way to the place of the dead, I will grab them from there.

Or, if they try to climb up to the sky, from there

I will seize them.

3 If they go to the top of Mount Carmel to escape,

I will search for them and seize them.

If they try to hide from me at the bottom of the sea,

I will command the huge sea monster to devour them there.

4 If their enemies capture them and force them to go to other countries,

I will command that they be killed there with swords.

I am determined to destroy them, not to help them.”

5 When Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, touches the earth, it melts,

and all over the earth many people die, and the others mourn for them.

It is as though Yahweh causes the earth repeatedly to rise and fall

like water in the Nile River rises and falls.

6 He builds his beautiful palace in heaven

and sets the sky to be like a dome over the earth.

He scoops up the water from the ocean and puts it into clouds,

and then empties the clouds onto the earth.

His name is Yahweh.

7 Yahweh has declared, “You people of Israel,

you are certainly now no more important to me than the people of Ethiopia.

I brought your ancestors here from Egypt,

but I also brought the people of Philistia from the Island of Crete,

and I brought the people of Aram from the region of Kir.

8 Take note! I, Yahweh the Lord, have seen just how sinful you wealthy landowners and nobles are in the kingdom of Israel,

so I will destroy you and your kingdom.

However, I will not completely destroy all the descendants of Jacob.”

Yahweh has declared that this will certainly happen.

9 Take note! Because you treated your fellow person injustly, I will send my judgment. I will punish the people of Israel for their sins, along with the other nations. My judgment will be thorough; not one wicked person will survive. 10 From among my people,

all you sinful people who say, ‘We will not experience disasters; nothing evil will happen to us,’

your enemies will kill you with their swords.”

11 “The kingdom over which King David ruled has been destroyed, like a house that collapsed and then became ruins.

But some day I will cause it to be a kingdom again.

I will cause it to prosper again

just like it did previously.

12 The result will be that your kingdom will include the remaining part of the region of Edom,

and your kingdom will include anyone among the other nations who worships me.

I, Yahweh, have declared that I will do these things,

and I will certainly cause them to happen.

13 Yahweh has declared this: “Hear this! The time is coming when the harvest will be so plentiful! The reaper will still be harvesting crops when the plowman comes to till the field the following season. And, the grape-treaders will still be juicing the grapes when the planter comes the following season. The peace and prosperity will be so abundant that new wine will overflow and spill out of the wine presses onto the hillsides and run down every slope.

14 I will cause you, my Israelite people, to prosper again.

You will rebuild your towns which your enemies destroyed, and you will live there.

You will plant vineyards and drink wine made from the grapes that grow in them. You will plant gardens and eat produce which grows in them.

15 I will enable you to live in your land again,

the land that I gave to your ancestors;

never again will your enemies force you to leave it.

This will surely happen because I, Yahweh your covenant-keeping God, have declared it.”