³ then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes^[a](A) and have compassion^(B) on you and gather^(C) you again from all the nations where he scattered^(D) you.^(E)

¹⁷ “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.’^(A)

³⁴ I will bring you from the nations^(A) and gather^(B) you from the countries where you have been scattered—with a mighty hand^(C) and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.^(D)

⁴¹ I will accept you as fragrant incense^(A) when I bring you out from the nations and gather^(B) you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will be proved holy^(C) through you in the sight of the nations.^(D)

²⁵ “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I gather^(A) the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered,^(B) I will be proved holy^(C) through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.^(D)

The Lord’s Plan

⁶ “In that day,” declares the Lord,