37. I am going to gather the people from all the countries where I have scattered them in my anger and fury, and I am going to bring them back to this place and let them live here in safety.
38. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
39. I will give them a single purpose in life: to honour me for all time, for their own good and the good of their descendants.
40. I will make an eternal covenant with them. I will never stop doing good things for them, and I will make them fear me with all their heart, so that they will never turn away from me.
41. I will take pleasure in doing good things for them, and I will establish them permanently in this land.
42. “Just as I have brought this disaster on these people, so I am going to give them all the good things that I have promised.
43. The people are saying that this land will be like a desert where neither people nor animals live, and that it will be given over to the Babylonians. But fields will once again be bought in this land.