introduces the unit and isolates it from what goes before. A new unit is signaled by a standard formula for future events in 4:1 [3:1], kî hinnēh bayyāmîm hāhēmmâ ûbāʿēt hahî. The entire unit refers to a time after YHWH’s promises recorded in 2:18–27. That is the function of the verb wehāyâ and the temporal qualifier, ʾaḥarê-kēn (“it will take place at a later time”). The speaker of the first unit, 1–2 [28–29], is YHWH, with the people of Judah addressed frequently in second person