Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: , Look, God’s dwelling is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples, , and God himself will be with them and will be their God.
‘Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days’ #– #the Lord’s declaration. ‘I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
I will put this third through the fire; I will refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, “They are my people,” and they will say, “The Lord is our God.” ’
‘ “They will live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your ancestors lived. They will live in it for ever with their children and grandchildren, and my servant David will be their prince for ever.
‘Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day and become my people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you.
I will bring them back from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, but it will not be enough for them.
but, “As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I had banished them.” They will dwell once more in their own land.’
which I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace.’ I declared, ‘Obey me, and do everything that I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God,’
I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God because they will return to me with all their heart.
‘ “This is what the Lord God says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be rebuilt.
I will strengthen the house of Judah and deliver the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had never rejected them. For I am the Lord their God, and I will answer them.
And to you and your future offspring , I will give the land where you are residing #– #all the land of Canaan #– #as a permanent possession, and I will be their God.’
They will be roused like birds from Egypt and like doves from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes. This is the Lord’s declaration.