10 “When you tell these people all these things, they will say to you, ‘Why has the LORD declared all this great disaster against us? What is our •guilt? What is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God? ’
11 Then you will answer them: Because your fathers abandoned Me” — this is the LORD’s declaration — “and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. Indeed, they abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
12 You did more evil than your fathers. Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying Me.
13 So I will hurl you from this land into a land that you and your fathers are not familiar with. There you will worship other gods both day and night, for I will not grant you grace.
14 “However, take note! The days are coming” — the LORD’s declaration — “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’
15 but rather , ‘As the LORD lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north and from all the other lands where He had banished them .’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their ancestors.
16 “I am about to send for many fishermen” — this is the LORD’s declaration — “and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,
17 for My gaze takes in all their ways. They are not concealed from Me, and their guilt is not hidden from My sight.
18 I will first repay them double for their guilt and sin because they have polluted My land. They have filled My inheritance with the lifelessness of their detestable and abhorrent idols.”
19 LORD , my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited only lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.”
20 Can one make gods for himself ? But they are not gods.
21 “Therefore , I am about to inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is •Yahweh.”
