¹⁶ And as for me^◦, I have not hurried^◦ to cease from shepherding in following after Thee; and I have not longed·​·for the desperate day; Thou^◦ knowest; that which goes·​·out of my lips was before Thee.

⁴⁴ They shall buy fields with the silver, and write letters, and seal them, and call· witnesses ·to·​·witness in the land of Benjamin, and all around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the south; for I will cause those in captivity to return, says^◦ Jehovah.