14 a“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, b‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ 15 but a‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel bout of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For cI will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers. 16 “Behold, aI am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out bof the clefts of the rocks. 17 For amy eyes are on all their ways. bThey are not hidden from me, bnor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. 18 But first aI will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and bhave filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
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aO Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
bmy refuge in the day of trouble,
cto you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
dworthless things in which there is no profit.
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Can man make for himself agods?
Such are not gods!”
21 “Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that amy name is the Lord.”