²¹and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.^v ²²I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel.^w There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.^x ²³They will no longer defile^y themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding,^b^z and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.^a

²⁴“ ‘My servant David^b will be king^c over them, and they will all have one shepherd.^d They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.^e ²⁵They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived.^f They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever,^g and David my servant will be their prince forever.^h ²⁶I will make a covenant of peaceⁱ with them; it will be an everlasting covenant.^j I will establish them and increase their numbers,^k and I will put my sanctuary among them^l forever.^m ²⁷My dwelling placeⁿ will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.^o

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Footnotes

bMany Hebrew manuscripts (see also Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts all their dwelling places where they sinned

Cross references

vSee ver 12; See Isa 43:5–6; See Eze 20:42; 39:27; Mic 4:6
wSee Eze 17:22; See 34:13–14
x Isa 11:13; Jer 33:24; See 50:4; Hos 1:11
y Eze 43:7
zSee Jer 7:24
a Eze 11:18; See 36:28; Na 2:2
b Isa 55:4; Hos 3:5
cSee 1 Sa 13:14; See Isa 32:1
d Zec 13:7
e Ps 78:70–71; See Jer 30:21; See Eze 21:27
fSee Eze 28:25
gSee Ezr 9:12; Am 9:15
hSee Ps 89:3–4; Isa 11:1; See Eze 34:23–24
iSee Nu 25:12
jSee Ge 9:16; See Dt 29:14; See Heb 13:20
kSee Jer 30:19
l Lev 26:11
mSee Eze 16:62
nSee Lev 26:11
oSee Eze 34:30; See 36:28; See 2 Co 6:16*