Study Desk

"^(C1)Therefore behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when it will no longer be said, 'As the LORD lives, who ^(C2)brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'

but, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the ^(C1)land of the north and from all the lands where He had banished them.' For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.

"Behold, I am going to send for many ^(C1)fishermen," declares the LORD, "and they will fish for them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will ^(C2)hunt them ^(C3)from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.

"^(C1)For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, ^(C2)nor is their wrongdoing concealed from My eyes.

"I will first repay them ^(C1)double for their wrongdoing and their sin, because they have ^(C2)defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their ^(C3)detestable idols and their abominations."