<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.

They will say, &#8220;This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.&#8221;

Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem<n id="1" /> during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

&#8220;Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, &#8216;Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.&#8217;<n id="1" />