³⁹And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors,^e they shall decay with them.

⁴⁰“ ‘But^f when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors^g in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility— ⁴¹I myself^h alsoⁱ went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies—or if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt, ⁴²I will remember^j my covenant with Jacob; and I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. ⁴³And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves^k must pay for their guilt, simply because^l they rejected my regulations, and their inner self^m abhorred my statutes. ⁴⁴And in spite ofⁿ this, when they are^o in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I am Yahweh their God. ⁴⁵And I will remember the first covenant for them^p—whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of^q the nations to be their God.^r I am Yahweh.’ ”

⁴⁶These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the Israelites^s on Mount Sinai^t through^u Moses.

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Footnotes

eOr “fathers”
fOr “And”
gOr “fathers”
hEmphatic personal pronoun
iOr “surely”
jOr “and I will remember”
kEmphatic personal pronoun
lLiterally “because and in because”
mOr “soul”
nLiterally “also even” or “moreover also” or “moreover even”
oLiterally “in their being”
pOr “on behalf of them” or “on their behalf”
qLiterally “to the eyes of” or “for the eyes of”
rLiterally “to be for them for God” or “to be for them as a God”
sLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
tLiterally “the mountain of Sinai”
uLiterally “in/by the hand of”