Jeremiah 32:36–44

³⁶“You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plague^f it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon’; but this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ³⁷I will surely gather^g them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger^h 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. ³⁹I will give them singleness^k of heart and action, so that they will always fear^l me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them. ⁴⁰I will make an everlasting covenant^m 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 rejoice^p in doing them good^q and will assuredly plant^r 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 calamity^t on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised^u them. ⁴³Once more fields will be bought^v in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolate^w waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.’ ⁴⁴Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds^x will be signed, sealed and witnessed^y 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 restore^a their fortunes,^c declares the Lord.”