²⁷“If in spite of this you do not listen to me and still resist me, ²⁸I will fiercely resist you. I will discipline you seven times for your sins. ²⁹You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters. ³⁰I will destroy your worship sites, cut down your incense altars, and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will look at you with disgust. ³¹I will make your cities deserted and ruin your sacred places. I will no longer accept the soothing aroma from your sacrifices. ³²I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it. ³³I will scatter you among the nations. War will follow you. Your country will be in ruins. Your cities will be deserted.

³⁴“Then the land will enjoy its time ⸤to honor the Lord⸥ while it lies deserted and you are in your enemies’ land. Then the land will joyfully celebrate its time ⸤to honor the Lord⸥. ³⁵All the days it lies deserted, it will celebrate the time ⸤to honor the Lord⸥ it never celebrated while you lived there. ³⁶I will fill with despair those who are left in the land of their enemies. The sound of a wind-blown leaf will make them run. They will run away and fall, but no one will be chasing them. ³⁷They will stumble over each other, but no one will be after them. They will not be able to stand up to their enemies. ³⁸They will be destroyed among the nations. The land of their enemies will devour them. ³⁹Those who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.

God Will Remember His Promise

⁴⁰“But if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—the treacherous things they did to oppose me—⁴¹I will oppose them and bring them into the lands of their enemies. Then, if they humble their uncircumcised hearts and accept their guilt, ⁴²I will remember my promise to Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. I will also remember the land. ⁴³The land, abandoned by them, will enjoy its time to honor the Lord while it lies deserted without them. They must accept their guilt because they rejected my rules and looked at my laws with disgust. ⁴⁴Even when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or look at them with disgust. I will not reject or cancel my promise to them, because I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵But for their sake, I will remember the promise to their ancestors. I brought them out of Egypt to be their God while nations looked on. I am the Lord.”

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