¹⁰ and I will cause many people to live on you—yes, all of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins^(A) rebuilt.^{(B) 11} I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful^(C) and become numerous. I will settle people^(D) on you as in the past^(E) and will make you prosper more than before.^(F) Then you will know that I am the Lord.

³⁷ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to Israel’s plea^(A) and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,^(B)