¹² Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; ^(A)they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inheritance; no more shall you ^(B)bereave them of children.”

Israel’s Final Triumph

¹⁴ You shall inherit it equally with one another; for I ^(A)raised My hand in an oath to give it to your fathers, and this land shall ^(B)fall to you as your inheritance.

¹³ ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they say to you, ^(A)‘You devour men and bereave your nation of children,’

⁴⁴ Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in ^(A)the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the ^[a]lowland, and in the cities of the ^[b]South; for ^(B)I will cause their captives to return,’ says the Lord.”

¹⁵ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Houses and fields and vineyards shall be ^(A)possessed again in this land.” ’

³² And they ^(A)gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^(B)all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.