6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’+

And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.

10 “And the number of the people* of Israel will be like the grains of sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered.+ And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’+ it will be said to them, ‘The sons of the living God.’+

12 However, to all who did receive him, he gave authority to become God’s children,+ because they were exercising faith in his name.+