³ then he will restore your fortunes,^[a](A) have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.^(B)

²³ This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘When I restore their fortunes,^[a] they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: “May the Lord bless you, righteous settlement,^(A) holy mountain.”^(B)

⁴² ‘For this is what the Lord says: Just as I have brought all this terrible disaster on these people,^(A) so am I about to bring on them all the good I am promising them. ⁴³ Fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying,^(B) “It’s a desolation^(C) without people or animals; it has been handed over to the Chaldeans! ” ⁴⁴ Fields will be purchased, the transaction written on a scroll and sealed,^(D) and witnesses will be called on in the land of Benjamin,^(E) in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in Judah’s cities – the cities of the hill country, the cities of the Judean foothills, and the cities of the Negev – because I will restore their fortunes.’^[a]

This is the Lord’s declaration.