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Judah’s Neighbors. 14 Thus says the Lord, against all my evil neighbors[a] who plunder the heritage I gave my people Israel as their own: See, I will uproot them from their land; the house of Judah I will uproot in their midst.(A)

15 But after uprooting them, I will have compassion on them again and bring them back, each to their heritage, each to their land.(B) 16 And if they truly learn my people’s custom of swearing by my name, “As the Lord lives,” just as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:14 My evil neighbors: nations surrounding Israel, the land belonging to the Lord; cf. Is 8:8.

14 This is what the Lord says: “As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance(A) I gave my people Israel, I will uproot(B) them from their lands and I will uproot(C) the people of Judah from among them. 15 But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion(D) and will bring(E) each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. 16 And if they learn(F) well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives’(G)—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal(H)—then they will be established among my people.(I)

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