Eze 37:21-28, 39:25-29, Hos 2:19-23, Joe 3:16-21, Amo 9:13-15 | ESV | STEP | then say to them, Thus says the Lord God : Behold , I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone , and will gather them from all around , and bring them to their own land .

21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^aI will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and ^bbring them to their own land. 22 And ^cI will make them one nation in the land, on ^dthe mountains of Israel. And ^eone king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer ^ftwo nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23 ^gThey shall not ^hdefile themselves anymore ⁱwith their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But ^jI will save them from all the backslidings ^{▼▼Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings} in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and ^lthey shall be my people, and I will be their God.

24 “My servant ^mDavid ⁿshall be king over them, and they shall all have ^oone shepherd. ^pThey shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25 ^qThey shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there ^rforever, and David my servant shall be their prince ^sforever. 26 ^tI will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be ^uan everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks in their land} and ^wmultiply them, and will ^xset my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 ^yMy dwelling place shall be with them, ^zand I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 Then ^aathe nations will know that ^abI am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when ^acmy sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

Ezekiel 39:25-29

The Lord Will Restore Israel

25 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now ^adI will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on ^aethe whole house of Israel, and ^afI will be jealous for my holy name. 26 They shall ^agforget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when ^ahthey dwell securely in their land with ^ainone to make them afraid, 27 ^ajwhen I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands, ^akand through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations. 28 ^alThen they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore. 29 ^amAnd I will not hide my face anymore from them, when ^anI pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”

Hosea 2:19-23

19 And I will betroth you to me ^aoforever. ^apI will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 20 ^aqI will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And ^aryou shall know the Lord.

21 “And ^asin that day ^atI will answer, declares the Lord,
I will answer the heavens,
and they shall answer the earth,
22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and they shall answer ^auJezreel, ^{▼▼ Jezreel means God will sow}
23 and ^awI will sow her for myself in the land.
And ^axI ^aywill have mercy on No Mercy, ^{▼▼Hebrew Lo-ruhama}
and ^baI will say to Not My People, ^{▼▼Hebrew Lo-ammi} ^bc‘You are my people’;
and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

Joel 3:16-21

16 ^bdThe Lord roars from Zion,
and ^beutters his voice from Jerusalem,
^bfand the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is ^bga refuge to his people,
a stronghold to the people of Israel.

The Glorious Future of Judah

17 ^bh“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
^biwho dwells in Zion, ^bjmy holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
and ^bkstrangers shall never again pass through it.
18 “And in that day
^blthe mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and ^bmall the streambeds of Judah
shall flow with water;
^bnand a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
and water the Valley of ^boShittim.
19 ^bp“Egypt shall become a desolation
and ^bqEdom a desolate wilderness,
^brfor the violence done to the people of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 ^bsBut Judah shall be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem to all generations.
21 ^btI will avenge their blood,
blood I have not avenged, ^{▼▼Or I will acquit their bloodguilt that I have not acquitted}
^bvfor the Lord dwells in Zion.”

Amos 9:13-15

13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
^bw“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
^bxthe mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and all the hills shall flow with it.
14 ^byI will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
and ^bzthey shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
^cathey shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
15 ^cbI will plant them on their land,
^ccand they shall never again be uprooted
out of the land ^cdthat I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.