Jeremiah 32:36–44

36 “You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plaguef it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon’; but this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 37 I will surely gatherg them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious angerh and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.i 38 They will be my people,j and I will be their God. 39 I will give them singlenessk of heart and action, so that they will always fearl me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them. 40 I will make an everlasting covenantm with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspiren them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.o 41 I will rejoicep in doing them goodq and will assuredly plantr them in this land with all my heart and soul.s

42 “This is what the Lord says: As I have brought all this great calamityt on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promisedu them. 43 Once more fields will be boughtv in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolatew waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.’ 44 Fields will be bought for silver, and deedsx will be signed, sealed and witnessedy in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev,z because I will restorea their fortunes,c declares the Lord.”