²¹ And speak to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am taking the Israelites^[a] from among the nations to which they went,^[b] and I will gather them from everywhere,^[c] and I will bring them to their own soil. ²² And I will make them into one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and they will all have one king as their king,^[d] and they^[e] will not again be two nations and will not again divide into two kingdoms again. ²³ And they will not defile themselves again with their idols and with vile idols and with all of their transgressions, and I will save them from all of their apostasy by which they sinned,^[f] and I will cleanse them and they will be for me as a people and I, I will be for them as God.

²⁴ “‘“And my servant David will be king over them, and one shepherd will be for all of them, and in my regulations they will go, and my statutes they will observe, and they will do them. ²⁵ And they will dwell on the land that I gave to my servant, to Jacob, in which your ancestors dwelled,^[g] and they will dwell on it, they and their children and the children of their children forever,^[h] and my servant David will be a leader for them forever.^{[i] 26} And I will make with them a covenant of peace; an everlasting covenant^[j] it will be with them. And I will establish them, and I will cause them to increase, and I will put my sanctuary in the midst of them forever.^{[k] 27} And my tabernacle will be with them, and I will be for them as God, and they will be to me as a nation. ²⁸ And the nations will know that I, Yahweh, am consecrating Israel when my sanctuary is in the midst of them forever.”’”^[l]