11. I will increase the number of your people and animals. They will have many babies. I will settle people in your towns, just as I did in the past. I will help you succeed more than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
12. " ' "I will let my people Israel walk there again. They will possess you. They will receive you as their own. You will never take their children away from them again." ' "
13. The Lord and King says, "People say to you mountains, 'You destroy people. You let your nation's children be taken away.'
14. But I will not let you destroy people anymore. I will no longer let your nation's children be taken away," announces the Lord and King.
15. "You will not have to listen to the nations laughing at you anymore. People will no longer make fun of you. You will not let your nation fall," announces the Lord and King.
16. Another message came to me from the Lord. He said,