14 But Zion kept saying: “Jehovah has left me,+ and Jehovah* himself has forgotten me.”+

15 “Instead of your proving to be one left entirely and hated, with nobody passing through,+ I will even set you as a thing of pride to time indefinite, an exultation for generation after generation.+

11 And he went on to say to me: “Son of man, as regards these bones, they are the whole house of Israel.+ Here they are saying, ‘Our bones have become dry, and our hope has perished.+ We have been severed off to ourselves.’

11 I ask, then, God did not reject his people, did he?+ Never may that happen! For I also am an Israelite,+ of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.+