I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever.

Then the nations will know that I the Lord make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.’”

He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings at their death.

Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will live among them forever.