¹⁵ but it will be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north^(A) and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’^(B) For I will restore^(C) them to the land I gave their ancestors.^(D)

⁸ After many days^(A) you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations^(B) to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety.^(C)

⁷ This is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will save my people from the countries of the east and the west.^(A)