9. “For look, I am for you, and I shall turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
10. “And I shall increase men upon you, all the house of Yisra’ĕl, all of it. And the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
11. “And I shall increase upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and bear young. And I shall make you inhabited as of old, and do better for you than at your beginnings. And you shall know that I am יהוה.
12. “And I shall let men, My people Yisra’ĕl, walk upon you, and let them possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and no longer let you add to their bereavement.”
13. ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Because they say to you, ‘You devour men and have bereaved your nation,’
14. therefore you shall no longer devour men, and no longer bereave your nation,” declares the Master יהוה.