12. And you have done worse than your ancestors. Here you are, every one of you, walking in the stubbornness of your evil heart instead of listening to me.
13. I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have known; there you can serve other gods day and night because I will not show you mercy.
14. Therefore, days are coming—oracle of the Lord—when it will no longer be said, “As the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites out of Egypt”;
15. but rather, “As the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites out of the land of the north and out of all the countries to which he had banished them.” I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors.
16. Look!—oracle of the Lord—I will send many fishermen to catch them. After that, I will send many hunters to hunt them out from every mountain and hill and rocky crevice.
17. For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor does their guilt escape my sight.
18. I will at once repay them double for their crime and their sin because they profaned my land with the corpses of their detestable idols, and filled my heritage with their abominations.
19. Lord, my strength, my fortress,my refuge in the day of distress!To you nations will comefrom the ends of the earth, and say,“Our ancestors inherited mere frauds,empty, worthless.”
20. Can human beings make for themselves gods?But these are not gods at all!
21. Therefore, I will indeed give them knowledge;this time I will make them acknowledgeMy strength and my power:they shall know that my name is Lord.