22. How long will you turn here and there,faithless daughter? For the Lord creates something new in the land —a female will shelter a man.
23. This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore their fortunes, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, ‘May the Lord bless you, righteous settlement, holy mountain.’
24. Judah and all its cities will live in it together — also farmers and those who move with the flocks —
25. for I satisfy the thirsty person and feed all those who are weak.”
26. At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.
27. “The days are coming” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.
28. Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear them down, to demolish and to destroy, and to cause disaster, so will I be attentive to build and to plant them,” says the Lord.