39. Those of you who survive will waste away in your enemies’ lands because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
40. “But at last my people will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors for betraying me and being hostile toward me.
41. When I have turned their hostility back on them and brought them to the land of their enemies, then at last their stubborn hearts will be humbled, and they will pay for their sins.
42. Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.