3 Jehovah your God must also bring back your captives*+ and show you mercy+ and collect you again from all the peoples where Jehovah your God has scattered you.+

6 These are the sons of the jurisdictional district*+ who came up out of the captivity+ of the exiled people whom Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar+ the king of Babylon* had taken into exile+ and who later returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city;+

7 And it must become a region for the remaining ones of the house of Judah.+ Upon them they will feed. In the houses of Ashʹke·lon, in the evening, they will lie stretched out. For Jehovah their God* will turn his attention to them+ and certainly gather back the captive ones of them.”+