¹⁹ say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take ^(A)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 ^(B)stick of Judah,^[a] and ^(C)make them one stick, ^(D)that they may be one in my hand.

²¹ then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^(A)I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and ^(B)bring them to their own land.

²² And ^(A)I will make them one nation in the land, on ^(B)the mountains of Israel. And ^(C)one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer ^(D)two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.

²⁴ “My servant ^(A)David ^(B)shall be king over them, and they shall all have ^(C)one shepherd. ^(D)They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. ^25 (E)They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there ^(F)forever, and David my servant shall be their prince ^(G)forever. ^26 (H)I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be ^(I)an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land^[a] and ^(J)multiply them, and will ^(K)set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. ^27 (L)My dwelling place shall be with them, ^(M)and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ²⁸ Then ^(N)the nations will know that ^(O)I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when ^(P)my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”