Returning to the Lord

30 “When all these things happen to you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,^(A)

³ Death will be chosen over life^(A) by all the survivors of this evil family, those who remain wherever I have banished them.”^(B) This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

¹⁵ but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north^(A) 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.^(B)