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17 ‘Israel's enemies have chased them away to many different places.
They are like sheep that hungry lions have chased away.
The first to catch them was the king of Assyria.
Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon destroyed them,
like a lion that broke their bones.’[a]

18 So the Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says this:

‘I will punish the king of Babylon and his country,
as I punished the king of Assyria.
19 But I will bring Israel's people back to their own land.
They will grow their crops on Carmel and in Bashan.
They will have plenty of food to eat
on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

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Footnotes

  1. 50:17 First, Assyria took away the people of the northern kingdom of Israel as their prisoners. Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon would take away the people of Judah, the southern kingdom.