35. This is what the Lord says:The One who gives the sun for light by day,the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night,who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar —Yahweh of Hosts is His name:
36. If this fixed order departs from My presence —this is the Lord’s declaration —then also Israel’s descendants will ceaseto be a nation before Me forever.
37. This is what the Lord says:If the heavens above can be measuredand the foundations of the earth below explored,I will reject all of Israel’s descendantsbecause of all they have done —this is the Lord’s declaration.
38. “Look, the days are coming” — the Lord’s declaration — “when the city from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate will be rebuilt for the Lord.
39. A measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.
40. The whole valley — the corpses, the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east — will be holy to the Lord. It will never be uprooted or demolished again.”