12. and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.
13. Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
14. “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’
15. but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers.
16. “Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
17. For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
18. But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
19. O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations comefrom the ends of the earth and say:“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
20. Can man make for himself gods?Such are not gods!”
21. “Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the Lord.”