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.
44. People will buy them, and the deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed. This will take place in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages round Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah, and in the towns in the hill country, in the foothills, and in southern Judah. I will restore the people to their land. I, the Lord, have spoken.”