^15 (A)Look down from Your holy ^[a]habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, ^(B)“a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’

A Prayer of Penitence

^13 (A)Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused ^(B)from His holy habitation!”

Future Prosperity of Judah

²³ Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: ^(A)‘The Lord bless you, O home of justice, and ^(B)mountain of holiness!’

True Worship and False

66 Thus says the Lord:

⁴³ hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, ^(A)that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and ^(B)fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name.

²⁷ “But ^(A)will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the ^(B)heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!

God’s Infallible Purpose in Christ

¹³ For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, ^(A)He swore by Himself, ¹⁴ saying, ^(B)“Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” ¹⁵ And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the ^(C)promise. ¹⁶ For men indeed swear by the greater, and ^(D)an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. ¹⁷ Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to ^(E)the heirs of promise ^(F)the ^[a]immutability of His counsel, ^[b]confirmed it by an oath, ¹⁸ that by two ^[c]immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to ^(G)lie, we ^[d]might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope ^(H)set before us.