²⁰ The Lord responded, “I have pardoned them as you requested.

³⁴ No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’^(A) for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them”^(B)—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their iniquity^(C) and never again remember their sin.

³ Perhaps when the house of Judah hears about all the disaster I am planning to bring on them, each one of them will turn from his evil way. Then I will forgive their iniquity^(A) and their sin.”