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    Because I, the Eternal One, am your God.
        I am the Holy One of Israel, and I will save you.
    I have traded in nations to win you back,
        Egypt, Cush, and Seba, in exchange for your freedom.
    Because you are special to Me and I love you,
        I gladly give up other peoples in exchange for you;
    They are trivial by comparison to your weighty significance.

5-6     So don’t be afraid. I am here.
        I will reunite you with your children,
        bringing them back from wherever in the world they are—East, West, North, or South.
    No place will be able to hold you when I demand your release, when I order them,
        “Bring My children—My sons and daughters—from far away.

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