"The Lord will have compassion on Jacob;
once again he will choose Israel
and will settle them in their own land.
Foreigners will join them
and unite with the descendants of Jacob."
Only God is able to take a thief and a liar like Jacob/Israel and make him into a great nation. God gave him a well in Samaria, as a legacy, where the people were hateful of and hated by the nation of Israel. God then used that land, through an encounter between Jesus and a sinful woman at the well of Jacob, to unite these two nations - and the world. If God can do all that with one thief and liar, what can He do with me and you, especially if we are willing?