Yeremia 30:3

30:3 For I, the Lord, affirm ¹  that the time will come when I will reverse the plight ²  of my people, Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors ³  and they will take possession of it once again.’” ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 39:25

39:25 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Now I will restore ⁵  the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have mercy on the entire house of Israel. I will be zealous for my holy name.

Amos 9:14

9:14 I will bring back my people, Israel; ⁶ 

they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble ⁷  and settle down. ⁸ 

They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; ⁹ 

they will grow orchards ¹⁰  and eat the fruit they produce. ¹¹ 

[30:3]  ¹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[30:3]  ² tn Heb “restore the fortune.” For the translation and meaning of this idiom see the note at 29:14.

[30:3]  ³ tn Heb “fathers.”

[30:3]  ⁴ sn As the nations of Israel and Judah were united in their sin and suffered the same fate – that of exile and dispersion – (cf. Jer 3:8; 5:11; 11:10, 17) so they will ultimately be regathered from the nations and rejoined under one king, a descendant of David, and regain possession of their ancestral lands. The prophets of both the eighth and seventh century looked forward to this ideal (see, e.g., Hos 1:11 (2:2 HT); Isa 11:11-13; Jer 23:5-6; 30:3; 33:7; Ezek 37:15-22). This has already been anticipated in Jer 3:18.

[39:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “cause to return.”

[9:14]  ⁶ tn This line can also be translated “I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel” and is a common idiom (e.g., Deut 30:3; Jer 30:3; Hos 6:11; Zeph 3:20). This rendering is followed by several modern English versions (e.g., NEB, NRSV, NJPS).

[9:14]  ⁷ tn Or “the ruined [or “desolate”] cities.”

[9:14]  ⁸ tn Or “and live [in them].”

[9:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “drink their wine.”

[9:14]  ¹⁰ tn Or “gardens.”

[9:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “eat their fruit.”