21 I will display my power among the nations, and all the nations will see my judgement that I’ll put into process and how I’ll put that into action against them. 22 Then from that time onwards, the Israeli people will know that I am their God Yahweh. 23 The nations will know that the Israeli people went into captivity because of how they betrayed me with their disobedience, so I distanced myself from them and handed them over to their adversaries so that all of them died in the battle. 24 When I distanced myself from them, I treated them exactly as their defilement and rebellion deserved.

25 Therefore the master Yahweh says this: Now I’ll restore the fortunes of Yakov, and I’ll have compassion on all the descendants of Israel, when I act with zeal to protect my pure reputation. 26 Then they’ll bear their shame and all the treason in which they betrayed me. They’ll forget all that when they rest in their land in safety, with no one to terrify them 27 whenI restore them from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, and I show myself in the sight of many nations to always do what’s right. 28 Then they’ll know that I am Yahweh their God, because I sent them into captivity among the other nations, but then I’ll gather them back to their own land. I won’t leave any of them among the nations. 29 I’ll no longer distance myself from them when I pour out my spirit on the Israeli people. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.”