¹¹ Likewise, also all the Jews who were in ^(A)Moab and among the sons of ^(B)Ammon and in ^(C)Edom, and who were in all the other countries, heard that the king of Babylon had ^[a]left a remnant for Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan. ¹² Then all the Jews ^(D)returned from all the places to which they had been scattered and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

¹⁶ Even when their survivors ^(A)escape, they will be on the mountains like ^(B)doves of the valleys, all of them ^(C)moaning, each over his own wrongdoing.

²⁵ For you were ^(A)continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the ^(B)Shepherd and ^[a]Guardian of your souls.