34 People will no longer have to teach their neighbors and relativesto know the Lord.This is because all people will know me,from the least to the most important,” says the Lord.“I will forgive them for the wicked things they did.I will not remember their sins anymore.”
35 This is what the Lord says:“The Lord makes the sun shine in the day.And he makes the moon and stars shine at night.He stirs up the sea so that its waves crash on the shore.The Lord of heaven’s armies is his name.
36 “Only if these laws should ever fail,”says the Lord,“will Israel’s descendants stopbeing a nation before me.”
37 This is what the Lord says:“There’s only one way I will reject all the descendants of Israel.That is if people can measure the sky above.It is if they can learn the secrets of the earth below.Then I will reject them because of what they have done,” says the Lord.
38 The Lord says, “The days are coming when Jerusalem will be rebuilt for me. Everything from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate will be rebuilt.
39 The measuring line will stretch from the Corner Gate straight to the hill of Gareb. Then it will turn to the place named Goah.
40 There is the whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown. It will be holy to the Lord. And all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley will be included. They are on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate. All that area will be holy to the Lord. The city of Jerusalem will never again be torn down or destroyed.”