28. Thus you spoke through your servant Moses, the day you ordered him to write down your law in the presence of the Israelites:
29. ‘If you do not listen to my voice, surely this great and numerous throng will dwindle away among the nations to which I will scatter them.
30. For I know they will not listen to me, because they are a stiff-necked people. But in the land of their exile they shall have a change of heart;
31. they shall know that I, the Lord, am their God. I will give them a heart and ears that listen;
32. and they shall praise me in the land of their exile, and shall remember my name.
33. Then they shall turn back from their stiff-necked stubbornness, and from their evil deeds, because they shall remember the ways of their ancestors, who sinned against the Lord.
34. And I will bring them back to the land I promised on oath to their ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and they shall rule it. I will make them increase; they shall not be few.
35. And I will establish for them an eternal covenant: I will be their God, and they shall be my people; and I will never again remove my people Israel from the land I gave them.’