Ezekiel 37:25-28

37:25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it – they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever. 37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. ¹  I will establish them, ²  increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever. 37:27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. 37:28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’” ³ 

Isaiah 60:21

60:21 All of your people will be godly; ⁴ 

they will possess the land permanently.

I will plant them like a shoot;

they will be the product of my labor,

through whom I reveal my splendor. ⁵ 

Amos 9:15

9:15 I will plant them on their land

and they will never again be uprooted from the ⁶  land I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.

[37:26]  ¹ sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60, for other references to perpetual covenants.

[37:26]  ² tn Heb “give them.”

[37:28]  ³ sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.

[60:21]  ⁴ tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”

[60:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”

[9:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “their.” The pronoun was replaced by the English definite article in the translation for stylistic reasons.