2 Nephi 24:1

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1: For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

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Israel set in their own land

Perhaps another dual prophecy—King Cyrus of Persia will allow the Jews to return from Babylonian captivity in 537 B.C.; this may also refer to the latter-day gathering of Israel, in which modern covenant Israel will receive help from the Gentiles.

John Bytheway, Isaiah for Airheads, p. 155