⁴⁰ “‘But if they will confess^(A) their sins^(B) and the sins of their ancestors^(C)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, ⁴¹ which made me hostile^(D) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts^(E) are humbled^(F) and they pay^(G) for their sin, ⁴² I will remember my covenant with Jacob^(H) and my covenant with Isaac^(I) and my covenant with Abraham,^(J) and I will remember the land. ⁴³ For the land will be deserted^(K) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected^(L) my laws and abhorred my decrees.^{(M) 44} Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,^(N) I will not reject them or abhor^(O) them so as to destroy them completely,^(P) breaking my covenant^(Q) with them. I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵ But for their sake I will remember^(R) the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt^(S) in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

The Lord Is God

³² Ask^(A) now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth;^(B) ask from one end of the heavens to the other.^(C) Has anything so great^(D) as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

²⁸ In furious anger and in great wrath^(A) the Lord uprooted^(B) them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”