³ The days^(A) are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will bring^(B) my people Israel and Judah back from captivity^[a] and restore^(C) them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess,’ says the Lord.”

²⁷ The trees will yield their fruit^(A) and the ground will yield its crops;^(B) the people will be secure^(C) in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke^(D) and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.^(E)

²¹ and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.^(A)