So in God’s sixth statement of promise, he tells of a change of action on his part:

17. What change of conditions would now take place, and therefore how would the nations change their speech about the restored remnant?

¹⁷ “‘And now I shall not be as in the former days to the remaining ones of this people,’ is the utterance of Jehovah of armies. ‘For there will be the seed of peace; the vine itself will give its fruitage, and the earth itself will give its yield, and the heavens themselves will give their dew; and I shall certainly cause the remaining ones of this people to inherit all these things.