24. “Have you noticed what people are saying?—‘The lord chose Judah and Israel and then abandoned them!’ They are sneering and saying that Israel is not worthy to be counted as a nation.
25. But this is what the lord says: I would no more reject my people than I would change my laws that govern night and day, earth and sky.
26. I will never abandon the descendants of Jacob or David, my servant, or change the plan that David’s descendants will rule the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Instead, I will restore them to their land and have mercy on them.”