the law. Yet beyond Israel’s destruction is the prophetic assurance of restoration. This restoration is possible only because law is administered through the covenant. Not because the chastened nation achieves a meritorious righteousness that earns for itself a restoration to God’s favor, but only because of the priority of grace in the covenant may the nation expect fulfilment of the promise that they shall return to the land they have lost. Indeed, in the process of restoration they will be given