But after I have uprooted the people of those nations, I will relent ¹  and have pity on them. I will restore the people of each of those nations to their own lands ²  and to their own country.

Then I myself will regather those of my people ¹  who are still alive from all the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their homeland. ²  They will greatly increase in number.

Hear what the Lord has to say, O nations. Proclaim it in the faraway lands along the sea. Say, “The one who scattered Israel will regather them. He will watch over his people like a shepherd watches over his flock.”

Kill all the farmers who sow the seed in the land of Babylon. Kill all those who wield the sickle at harvest time. ¹  Let all the foreigners return to their own people. Let them hurry back to their own lands to escape destruction by that enemy army. ² 

“Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been dispersed, I will give you back the country of Israel.’

“‘What you plan ¹  will never happen. You say, “We will be ²  like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.” ³ 

Because you robbed many countries, ¹  all who are left among the nations ²  will rob you. You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, ³  and those who live in them.

For you will pay in full for your violent acts against Lebanon; ¹  terrifying judgment will come upon you because of the way you destroyed the wild animals living there. ²  You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them.

From one man ¹  he made every nation of the human race ²  to inhabit the entire earth, ³  determining their set times ⁴  and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, ⁵ 

Moreover, ¹  the open field areas of their cities ²  must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

(Now the city’s fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)

Ezri son of Kelub was in charge of the field workers who farmed the land. ¹ 

Your ¹  sons will carry ²  on the dynasty of your ancestors; ³  you will make them princes throughout the land.

The Lord reigns! Let the earth be happy! Let the many coastlands rejoice!

He would pour ¹  contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

The wisdom of the shrewd person ¹  is to discern ²  his way, but the folly of fools is deception. ³ 

Lambs ¹  will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze. ² 

and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned. ¹ 

all the kings of Tyre, ¹  all the kings of Sidon; ²  all the kings of the coastlands along the sea; ³