³¹ if they violate my decrees
    and fail to keep my commands,
³² I will punish their sin with the rod,
    their iniquity with flogging;^(A)
33 but I will not take my love from him,^(B)
    nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.
³⁴ I will not violate my covenant
    or alter what my lips have uttered.^(C)
35 Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness—
    and I will not lie to David—
³⁶ that his line will continue forever
    and his throne endure before me like the sun;^(D)
37 it will be established forever like the moon,
    the faithful witness in the sky.”^(E)

³⁸ But you have rejected,^(F) you have spurned,
    you have been very angry with your anointed one.

⁵ For your Maker^(A) is your husband^(B)—
    the Lord Almighty is his name—
the Holy One^(C) of Israel is your Redeemer;^(D)
    he is called the God of all the earth.^(E)
6 The Lord will call you back^(F)
    as if you were a wife deserted^(G) and distressed in spirit—
a wife who married young,^(H)
    only to be rejected,” says your God.
⁷ “For a brief moment^(I) I abandoned^(J) you,
    but with deep compassion^(K) I will bring you back.^(L)
8 In a surge of anger^(M)
    I hid^(N) my face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness^(O)
    I will have compassion^(P) on you,”
    says the Lord your Redeemer.^(Q)

⁹ “To me this is like the days of Noah,
    when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth.^(R)
So now I have sworn^(S) not to be angry^(T) with you,
    never to rebuke^(U) you again.
¹⁰ Though the mountains be shaken^(V)
    and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love^(W) for you will not be shaken^(X)
    nor my covenant^(Y) of peace^(Z) be removed,”
    says the Lord, who has compassion^(AA) on you.

he who appoints^(A) the sun
    to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
    to shine by night,^(B)
who stirs up the sea^(C)
    so that its waves roar^(D)—
    the Lord Almighty is his name:^(E)
36 “Only if these decrees^(F) vanish from my sight,”
    declares the Lord,
“will Israel^(G) ever cease
    being a nation before me.”

“Only if the heavens above can be measured^(H)
    and the foundations of the earth below be searched out
will I reject^(I) all the descendants of Israel
    because of all they have done,”
declares the Lord.