³⁹ And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors,^[a] they shall decay with them.

⁴⁰ “‘But^[b] when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors^[c] in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility— ⁴¹ I myself^[d] also^[e] went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies—or if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt, ⁴² I will remember^[f] my covenant with Jacob; and I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. ⁴³ And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves^[g] must pay for their guilt, simply because^[h] they rejected my regulations, and their inner self^[i] abhorred my statutes. ⁴⁴ And in spite of^[j] this, when they are^[k] in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I am Yahweh their God. ⁴⁵ And I will remember the first covenant for them^[l]—whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of^[m] the nations to be their God.^[n] I am Yahweh.’”

⁴⁶ These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the Israelites^[o] on Mount Sinai^[p] through^[q] Moses.