Baruch 2:27-35

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God’s Promise Recalled

²⁷ “Yet you have dealt with us, O Lord our God, in all your kindness and in all your great compassion, ²⁸ as you spoke by your servant Moses on the day when you commanded him to write your law in the presence of the people of Israel, saying, ²⁹ ‘If you will not obey my voice, this very great multitude will surely turn into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.^{(A) 30} For I know that they will not obey me, for they are a stiff-necked people. But in the land of their exile they will have a change of heart^{(B) 31} and know that I am the Lord their God. I will give them a heart that obeys and ears that hear;^{(C) 32} they will praise me in the land of their exile and will remember my name ³³ and turn from their stubbornness and their wicked deeds, for they will remember the ways of their ancestors, who sinned before the Lord. ³⁴ I will bring them again into the land that I swore to give to their ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they will rule over it, and I will increase them, and they will not be diminished.^{(D) 35} I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people, and I will never again remove my people Israel from the land that I have given them.’^(E)