^7 (A)then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in ^(B)the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

^40 (A)You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that ^[a]it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may ^[b]prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

¹⁸ “In those days ^(A)the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of ^(B)the north to ^(C)the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.

⁵ They said, ^(A)‘Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.

⁷ The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to ^(A)pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, ^8 (B)if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, ^(C)I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.

²⁰ and say to them, ^(A)‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates. ²¹ Thus says the Lord: ^(B)“Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; ²² nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, as I ^(C)commanded your fathers. ^23 (D)But they did not obey nor incline their ear, but ^[a]made their neck stiff, that they might not hear nor receive instruction.

²⁴ “And it shall be, ^(E)if you heed Me carefully,” says the Lord, “to bring no burden through the gates of this city on the ^(F)Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work in it, ^25 (G)then shall enter the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, accompanied by the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever. ²⁶ And they shall come from the cities of Judah and from ^(H)the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin and from ^(I)the ^[b]lowland, from the mountains and from ^(J)the ^[c]South, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, bringing ^(K)sacrifices of praise to the house of the Lord.

²⁷ “But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then ^(L)I will kindle a fire in its gates, ^(M)and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be ^(N)quenched.” ’ ”

^8 (A)and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers—only if they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.”