⁹ I am your friend and I will take care of you. Men will plough your ground and they will plant seeds in it. ¹⁰ I will cause more and more Israelite people to live on you, and in all the land. They will live in the towns and they will repair the broken buildings. ¹¹ I will make more and more people and animals live on you. They will give birth to many young ones, so that they grow in number. I will cause many people to live on you, as they did a long time ago. I will help you with more good things than you had when you first became a land for my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.