9. For lo I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.
10. And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of Israel: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be repaired.
11. And I will make you abound with men and with beasts: and they shall be multiplied, and increased: and I will settle you as from the beginning, and will give you greater gifts, than you had from the beginning: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
12. And I will bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they shall possess thee for their inheritance: and thou shalt be their inheritance, and shalt no more henceforth be without them.
13. Thus saith the Lord God: Because they say of you: Thou art a devourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy nation:
14. Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, nor destroy thy nation any more, saith the Lord God: