18 This is what Jehovah has said: “Here I am gathering the captive ones of the tents of Jacob,+ and for his tabernacles I shall have pity. And the city will actually be rebuilt upon her mound;+ and upon its rightful site the dwelling tower itself will sit.+

10 And I will multiply upon YOU humankind,* the whole house of Israel, all of it,+ and the cities must become inhabited,+ and the devastated places themselves will be rebuilt.+

6 In that day I shall make the sheiks of Judah like a firepot among trees+ and like a fiery torch in a row of newly cut grain,+ and they must devour on the right [hand] and on the left all the peoples round about;+ and Jerusalem must yet be inhabited in her [own] place, in Jerusalem.+