and it filled the land ... The hills were covered with the shadow of it ... She sent out her boughs unto the sea... Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself ... Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself... Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved ... (Psalm 80:1-2, 8-11, 14-15, 17, 19) In the latter days, according to LDS interpretation, the tribes of Israel were to be gathered again into one fold (the elect family of God) in the 'second' promised land of Joseph's 'double portioned' inheritance — which Latter-day Saints believe is the entire American continent of North and South America (with North America serving as the latter-day 'Zion') — which God has consecrated to house, at a future day, His holy city of the 'New Jerusalem'.See D&C 57:1-2; 84:1-2; Ether 13:3-6, 10; 2 Ne 20:22; and Art of Faith 1:10. The Ephraimite tribe would eventually come to rule over all of Israel's tribes (Gen 37:510; 49:22-26). God's promises to the House of David (Judah) would also stand sure, in time, but they would be subsumed in a united mission with, and led by, Ephraim to convert the world, under the divine commission given to the house of Joseph — the salvation of God's children (2 Sam 7:16; Psalm 89:3-4; and 1 Chron 28:4-5). All of Israel's lost tribes, according to LDS theology, will gather to Ephraim at the end of days, for it is at the hands of Ephraim that they will receive the reward of their promises and blessings: "And there shall they fall down and be crowned with glory, even in Zion [the New Jerusalem of the Americas], by the hands of the [royal birthright (priestly) Ephraimite] servants of the Lord, even the children of Ephraim. And they shall be filled with songs [temple psalms, hymns] of everlasting joy. Behold, this is the blessing of the everlasting God upon the tribes of Israel, and the richer blessing upon the head of Ephraim and his fellows [his brethren]. And they also of the tribe of Judah [the Jews], after their pain