Jeremiah 30:19

30:19 Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving ¹ 

and the sounds of laughter and merriment.

I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away. ² 

I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.

Ezekiel 36:9

36:9 For indeed, I am on your side; ³  I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.

Hosea 2:23

2:23 Then I will plant her as my own ⁴  in the land.

I will have pity on ‘No Pity’ (Lo-Ruhamah).

I will say to ‘Not My People’ (Lo-Ammi), ‘You are my people!’

And he ⁵  will say, ‘You are ⁶  my God!’”

Zechariah 10:9

10:9 Though I scatter ⁷  them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places – they and their children will sprout forth and return.

¹ tn Heb “Out of them will come thanksgiving and a sound of those who are playful.”

² sn Compare Jer 29:6.

³ tn Heb “I (am) toward you.”

⁴ tn Heb “for myself.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew text, carrying out the reference to the son born in 1:8-9, uses the third person masculine singular pronoun here; some English translations use third person plural (“they,” so KJV, NASB, NIV, CEV) in keeping with the immediate context, which refers to reestablished Israel.

⁶ tn The words “You are” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but are implied. It is necessary to supply the phrase in the translation to prevent the reader from understanding the predicate “my God” as an exclamation (cf. NAB).

⁷ tn Or “sow” (so KJV, ASV). The imagery is taken from the sowing of seed by hand.