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11 When the branches become dry, they break off the tree. Women will take the sticks and they will make fires with them. That is what these people are like. They do not understand anything. So their Maker will not help them or be kind to them.

12 At that time, the Lord will shake the tree! He will do that to his people everywhere from the River Euphrates to the Stream of Egypt.[a] Then he will bring together all of you, one by one, you Israelite people.

13 At that time, they will hear the sound of a loud trumpet. Then people who were dying in exile in Assyria will come. People who went away into Egypt will also come. They will worship the Lord on his holy hill in Jerusalem.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 27:12 The River Euphrates and the Stream of Egypt were the borders of Israel in the north and in the south.
  2. 27:13 ‘his holy hill’ is Mount Zion.