7. So this is what the Lord God says: I promise that the nations around you will also have to suffer insults.
8. “ ‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow branches and fruit for my people, who will soon come home.
9. I am concerned about you; I am on your side. You will be plowed, and seed will be planted in you.
10. I will increase the number of people who live on you, all the people of Israel. The cities will have people living in them, and the ruins will be rebuilt.
11. I will increase the number of people and animals living on you. They will grow and have many young. You will have people living on you as you did before, and I will make you better off than at the beginning. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
12. I will cause my people Israel to walk on you and own you, and you will belong to them. You will never again take their children away from them.