This is made clear at Zephaniah 3: 18 - 20, where we read: “‘ The ones grief - stricken in absence from your festal season I [Jehovah] shall certainly gather together; absent from you they happened to be, because of bearing reproach on her account.
این کلام نبوی خطاب به آنهایی بود که از اسارت در بابل رهایی یافته ،‏ به سرزمین اجدادی خود بازگشته بودند .‏