8. “‘But you, mountains of Israel, you will grow branches and fruit for my people. My people will soon come home.
9. I am concerned about you. I am for you. You will be plowed, and seed will be planted in you.
10. I will multiply the people who live on you. All the people of Israel will come. The cities will have people living in them. The ruins will be rebuilt.
11. I will make the people and animals living on you increase in number. They will grow and be fruitful. You will have people living on you as you did before. I will make you better off than at the beginning. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
12. I will cause my people Israel to walk on you. Then they will take you, and you will belong to them. You will never again take their children away from them.
13. “‘This is what the Lord God says: People say about you: “You eat people and take children from your nation.”
14. You will not destroy people anymore. You will not make your nation stumble anymore, says the Lord God.
15. I will not make you listen to insults from the nations anymore. You will not suffer shame from them anymore, says the Lord God.’”
16. The Lord spoke his word to me again. He said: