3 When the seventh month+ arrived and the Israelites* were in their cities, they gathered together with one accord in Jerusalem.

3 For “look! the days are coming,” declares Jehovah, “when I will gather the captives of my people, Israel and Judah,”+ says Jehovah, “and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers, and they will possess it once again.”’”+

25 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will restore the captives of Jacob+ and have mercy on the whole house of Israel;+ and I will zealously defend* my holy name.+