29 If you refuse to obey me, I will scatter you among the nations, and this mighty nation of yours will be nothing but a handful of people.
30 Yet I know you will disobey me, because you people are stubborn! Someday, after you have been taken captive and forced to live in foreign nations, you will realize what you have done.
31 Then you will know I am the Lord your God. I will give you a new heart, and you will be faithful and will listen to what I say.
32 There in the nation where you are living, you will praise me and turn back to me.
33 You will remember what happened to your ancestors when they sinned against me, and you will stop being stubborn and wicked.
34 Then I will let you return to the land that I promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You will once again rule there and increase in numbers. Never again will you be a small, powerless country.
35 I will make a solemn agreement with you, and it will last forever—I will be your God, and you will be my people. I will promise never again to take you out of the land that I have given you as your own.