¹⁷ “The people of Israel are like a flock of sheep that are scattered
    from being ·chased [driven] by lions.
The first lion to eat them up
    was the king of Assyria [^CSennacherib defeated the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 bc].
The last lion to ·crush [gnaw] their bones
    was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon [^Cdefeated the southern kingdom of Judah in 586 bc].”

“I will punish the king of Babylon and his country
    as I punished the king of Assyria [^Cdefeated by Babylon at the end of the seventh century bc].
¹⁹ But I will bring the people of Israel back to their own pasture.
    They will ·eat [feed] on Mount Carmel and in Bashan [^Cparticularly lush areas].
They will ·eat and be full [be sated]
    on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.”