<p class="poetry">He will lift a signal flag for the nations;p> <p class="poetry">he will gather Israel&#8217;s dispersed people<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and assemble Judah&#8217;s scattered peoplep> <p class="poetry">from the four corners of the earth.p>

<p class="poetry">There will be some left behind,p> <p class="poetry">like when an olive tree is beaten &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top,p> <p class="poetry">four or five on its fruitful branches,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah&#8217;s reign,<n id="1" /> King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.