¹⁵ They will say instead, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the ·Israelites [^Lsons of Israel] from the northern land [^CBabylon] and from all the countries where he had ·sent [driven] them…’ And I will ·bring them back [restore them] to the land I gave to their ·ancestors [fathers; ^Ca second Exodus; Is. 40:1–11; 52:10; Hos. 2:14–15].