12 He will nraise a signal for the nations
and will oassemble the banished of Israel,
and pgather the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the earth.
13 The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart,
and those who harass Judah shall be cut off;
qEphraim shall not be jealous of Judah,
and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
18 In those days rthe house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come sfrom the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.
4 “In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come ptogether, qweeping as they come, and they shall rseek the Lord their God.
23 And I will set up over them one nshepherd, my servant oDavid, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
6 “I will strengthen the house of Judah,
and I will save the house of Joseph.
I will bring them back because I have compassion on them,
and they shall be as though I had not rejected them,
for bI am the Lord their God and I will answer them.
16 “Son of man, take a stick1 and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ 17 And yjoin them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. 18 And when your people say to you, z‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’ 19 say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah,2 and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand. 20 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand abefore their eyes, 21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land. 22 And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23 bThey shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings3 in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
24 “My servant cDavid shall be king over them, and they shall all have done shepherd. eThey shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
