6 In the ninth year of Ho·sheʹa, the king of As·syrʹi·a captured Sa·marʹi·a+ and then led Israel into exile+ in As·syrʹi·a and kept them dwelling in Haʹlah+ and in Haʹbor at the river Goʹzan+ and in the cities of the Medes.+

8 but, ‘Jehovah is alive who brought up and who brought in the offspring* of the house of Israel out of the land of the north and out of all the lands to which I have dispersed them,’ and they will certainly dwell on their own ground.”+

8 Here I am bringing them from the land of the north,+ and I will collect them together from the remotest parts of the earth.+ Among them will be the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and the one giving birth, all together.+ As a great congregation they will return here.+