Moreover the word of Allah came to Armiya the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying, 2Thus says Allah who does it, Allah who forms it to establish it; Allah is his name: 3Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you do not know. 4For thus says Allah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword; 5while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city: 6Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth. 7I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. 8I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me. 9This city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it. 10Thus says Allah: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, of which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal, 11the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Allah, Lord of the universe, for Allah is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; and of them who bring sacrifices of thanksgiving into the house of Allah. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Allah. 12Thus says Allah, Lord of the universe: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a dwelling place of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. 13In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Binyamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Allah. 14Behold, the days come, says Allah, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah. 15In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to Dawud; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 16In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name by which she shall be called: Allah our righteousness. 17For thus says Allah: Dawud shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; 18neither shall the priests the Levites lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 19The word of Allah came to Armiya, saying, 20Thus says Allah: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season; 21then may also my covenant be broken with Dawud my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 22As the host of the sky cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of Dawud my servant, and the Levites who minister to me. 23The word of Allah came to Armiya, saying, 24Don’t you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Allah did choose, he has cast them off? Thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25Thus says Allah: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26then will I also cast away the seed of Yaqub, and of Dawud my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Ibrahim, Ishaq, and Yaqub: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.