¹⁸ and through your offspring^[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,^[b](A) because you have obeyed me.”^(B)

¹⁷ At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne^(A) of the Lord, and all nations^(B) will gather in Jerusalem to honor^(C) the name of the Lord. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.^(D)

¹⁵ But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion^(A) and will bring^(B) each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. ¹⁶ And if they learn^(C) well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives’^(D)—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal^(E)—then they will be established among my people.^(F)

⁸ Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”^[a](A)