“And I will turn the captivity of My people Israel, And they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;...” (Amos ix. 14.) “And I will plant them upon their land, And they shall no more be plucked up Out of their land which I have given them, Saith the Lord thy God.” (_Ibid._ 15.) Hosea, the son of Beeri, prophesied to the Kingdom of Israel, in the days of the same Jeroboam from about seven hundred and eighty-five, to seven hundred and twenty-five years before the civil era:―― “For the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days without king, and without prince,...” (Hosea iii. 4.) “afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king;...” (_Ibid._ 5.) This prophecy, being given to the Kingdom of Israel in particular, cannot be applied to the return of Judah from Babylon. Isaiah the son of Amoz (The First Isaiah) was the foremost of the four who are called the greater prophets. He lived in the time of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, Kings of Judah, and prophesied about seven hundred and sixty, to six hundred and ninety-eight years before the civil era:―― “And it shall come to pass in that day, That the Lord will set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people, That shall remain from Assyria, and from Egypt, And from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, And from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.” (Isaiah xi. 11.) “And he will set up an ensign for the nations, And will assemble the dispersed of Israel, And gather together the scattered of Judah From the four corners of the earth.” (_Ibid._ 12.) “The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, And they that harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not vex Ephraim.” (_Ibid._ 13.) This prophecy, alone, is sufficiently definite with regard to a second restoration of Israel, as appears from the eleventh verse, even if there were no other to be found. As to the second Isaiah, his prophecies may be called the “Song of Songs” of the restoration of Israel:―― “Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: They all are gathered together, and come to thee; Thy sons come from far, And thy daughters are borne on the side.” (Isaiah lx. 4.) “Who are these that fly as a cloud, And as the doves to their cotes?” (_Ibid._ 8.) “Surely the isles shall wait for Me, And the ships of Tarshish first, To bring thy sons from far, Their silver and their gold with them, For the name of the Lord thy God, And for the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee.” (_Ibid._ 9.)