49 “Jehovah will raise up against you a distant nation,+ from the end of the earth; it will pounce like an eagle,+ a nation whose language you will not understand,+ 50 a nation fierce in appearance that will show no regard to the old or favor to the young.+

15 “Here I am bringing in on you a nation from far away, O house of Israel,”+ declares Jehovah.

“It is an enduring nation.

21 In the Law it is written: “‘With the tongues of foreigners and with the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, and even then they will refuse to listen to me,’ says Jehovah.”*+