31:8 Then I will reply,
I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth.
Blind and lame people will come with them,
so will pregnant women and women about to give birth.
A vast throng of people will come back here.
31:9 They will come back shedding tears of contrition.
I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance.
I will lead them besides streams of water,
along smooth paths where they will never stumble.
I will do this because I am Israel’s father;
Ephraim
31:10 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.”
31:11 For the Lord will rescue the descendants of Jacob.
He will secure their release
11:12 He will lift a signal flag for the nations;
he will gather Israel’s dispersed people
and assemble Judah’s scattered people
from the four corners of the earth.
11:13 Ephraim’s jealousy will end,
and Judah’s hostility
Ephraim will no longer be jealous of Judah,
and Judah will no longer be hostile toward Ephraim.
11:14 They will swoop down
together they will loot the people of the east.
They will take over Edom and Moab,
and the Ammonites will be their subjects.
11:15 The Lord will divide
he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River
he will turn it into seven dried-up streams,
and enable them to walk across in their sandals.
11:16 There will be a highway leading out of Assyria
for the remnant of his people,
just as there was for Israel,
when
34:11 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.
34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.
36:24 “‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.
39:25 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Now I will restore
9:14 I will bring back my people, Israel;
they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble
They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce;
they will grow orchards
7:11 It will be a day for rebuilding your walls;
in that day your boundary will be extended.
7:12 In that day people
from Assyria as far as
from Egypt as far as the Euphrates River,
from the seacoasts
7:13 The earth will become desolate
because of what its inhabitants have done.
7:14 Shepherd your people with your shepherd’s rod,
the flock that belongs to you,
the one that lives alone in a thicket,
in the midst of a pastureland.
Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead,
as they did in the old days.
7:15 “As in the days when you departed from the land of Egypt,
I will show you
7:16 Nations will see this and be disappointed by
they will put their hands over their mouths,
and act as if they were deaf.