14 “However, look, the days are coming”e—the Lord’s declaration—“when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’f 15 but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the northg and from all the other lands where he had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their ancestors.h

PUNISHMENT OF EXILE

16 “I am about to send for many fishermen”i—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,