24. But we would not hearken to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore have you made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their places.
25. And, behold, they are cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.
26. And the house which is called by your name have you laid waste, as at this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
27. Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness, and according to all that great mercy of your,
28. as you spoke by your servant Moses in the day when you did command him to write your law before the children of Israel, saying,
29. If you⌃ will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.
30. For I know that they will not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivity they shall lay it to heart,
31. and shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and ears to hear:
32. and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,
33. and shall return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.
34. And I will bring them again into the land which I sware to their fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.