I will make you pass under<n id="1" /> the shepherd&#8217;s staff,<n id="2" /> and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

My father may touch me! Then he&#8217;ll think I&#8217;m mocking him<n id="1" /> and I&#8217;ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.&#8221;

I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries<n id="1" /> will be desecrated.

I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.

I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance.<n id="1" /> Although<n id="2" /> you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;As for<n id="1" /> the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and<n id="1" /> then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for<n id="2" /> their iniquity,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Come back to me, my wayward sons,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;for I am your true master.<n id="1" /> If you do,<n id="2" /> I will take one of you from each town and two of you from each family group, and I will bring you back to Zion.

But I will throw my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans<n id="1" /> (but he will not see it),<n id="2" /> and there he will die.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">In that day,&#8221; says the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;I will make the sun set at noon,p> <p class="poetry">and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.<n id="1" />p>

And I will bring them to settle within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God,<n id="1" /> in truth and righteousness.&#8217;p>

I will bring you to the land I swore to give<n id="1" /> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob &#8211; and I will give it to you<n id="2" /> as a possession. I am the <sc>Lord!&#8217;sc>&#8221;p>

I will bring on that land everything that I said I would. I will bring on it everything that is written in this book. I will bring on it everything that Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.<n id="1" />

I will punish him and his descendants and the officials who serve him for the wicked things they have done.<n id="1" /> I will bring on them, the citizens of Jerusalem,<n id="2" /> and the people of Judah all the disaster that I threatened to do to them. I will punish them because I threatened them but they still paid no heed.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">I will cause enemies to blow through Elam from every directionp> <p class="poetry">like the winds blowing in from the four quarters of heaven.p> <p class="poetry">I will scatter the people of Elam to the four winds.p> <p class="poetry">There will not be any nation where the refugees of Elam will not go.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will make the people of Elam terrified of their enemies,p> <p class="poetry">who are seeking to kill them.p> <p class="poetry">I will vent my fierce angerp> <p class="poetry">and bring disaster upon them,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will send armies chasing after them<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until I have completely destroyed them.p>

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.

Then tell them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land.

<p class="poetry">Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire;p> <p class="poetry">I will refine them like silver is refinedp> <p class="poetry">and will test them like gold is tested.p> <p class="poetry">They will call on my name and I will answer;p> <p class="poetry">I will say, &#8216;These are my people,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and they will say, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> is my God.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>