12 “This is what Jehovah of armies says: ‘In this wasteland, without man or livestock, and in all its cities, there will again be pastures for the shepherds to rest their flocks.’+

10 I will multiply your people—the whole house of Israel, all of it—and the cities will be inhabited+ and the ruins will be rebuilt.+ 11 Yes, I will multiply your people and your livestock;+ they will increase and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly,+ and I will make you prosper more than in the past;+ and you will have to know that I am Jehovah.+