"Behold, I am going to send for many fisherman," declared the LORD, "and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.At the first reading of this it kind of sounds ominous. It seems that God is going to be sending people to hunt and fish for the remnants of His people, and that usually doesn't turn out well for the fish or animal. It sounds like God is going to wipe them out, so that all that are left are those who survive in /are driven back to Israel.
However, this is why context matters. He's not going to send people to kill them. Instead, He's going to use people to bring them back home. Rather than hunting or fishing, it's closer to a catch-and-release program, to repopulate their homeland.
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