3 Whoever there is among YOU of all his people, may his God prove to be with him.+ So let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of Jehovah the God of Israel—he is the [true] God*+—which was in Jerusalem.+

17 that made the productive land* like the wilderness and that overthrew its* very cities,+ that did not open the way homeward even for his prisoners?’+

14 This is what Jehovah has said, the Repurchaser of YOU people,+ the Holy One of Israel:+ “For YOUR sakes I will send to Babylon and cause the bars of the prisons* to come down,+ and the Chal·deʹans in the ships with whining cries on their part.+

25 But this is what Jehovah has said: “Even the body of captives of the mighty man will be taken away,+ and those already taken by the tyrant himself will make their escape.+ And against anyone contending against you I myself shall contend,+ and your own sons I myself shall save.+