Jeremiah 29:10–14
10 “For thus says the Lord,
‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon,
I will visit you
and fulfill My good word to you,
to bring you back to this place.
11 ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord,
‘plans for welfare
and not for calamity
to give you a future
and a hope.
12 ‘Then you will call upon Me
and come
and pray to Me,
and I will listen to you.
13 ‘You will seek Me
and find Me
when you search for Me
with all your heart.
14 ‘I will be found by you,’ declares the Lord,
‘and I will restore your fortunes
And will gather you from all the nations
and from all the places
where I have driven you,’
declares the Lord,
‘and I will bring you back to the place
from where I sent you into exile.’
Deuteronomy 4:25–30 “When you become the father of children and children’s children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger, 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 “The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you. 28 “There you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. 29 “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. 30 “When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.
Deuteronomy 30:1–5“So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind in all nations where the Lord your God has banished you, 2 and you return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons, 3 then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.4“If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back. 5 “The Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers.