^11 (A)For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare^[a] and not for evil, ^(B)to give you a future and a hope. ^12 (C)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, ^(D)and I will hear you. ^13 (E)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me ^(F)with all your heart.

²⁴ And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, ^(A)to fear the Lord our God, ^(B)for our good always, that ^(C)he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. ²⁵ And ^(D)it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.’