9. For indeed, I am on your side; I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.
10. I will multiply your people – the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.
11. I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
12. I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children.
13. “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Because they are saying to you, “You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,”
14. therefore you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the sovereign Lord.
15. I will no longer subject you to the nations’ insults; no longer will you bear the shame of the peoples, and no longer will you bereave your nation, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
16. The word of the Lord came to me: