22. How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.”
23. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their captivity: ‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’
24. Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.
25. For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul I have replenished.”
26. On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
27. “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal.
28. It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant,” says Yahweh.
29. “In those days they shall say no more, “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’