I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

The Lord says, “I will make youths their officials; malicious young men will rule over them.

You have followed the ways of your sister, so I will place her cup of judgment in your hand.

I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies and I will give them tender hearts,

I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.

I will put tendons on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

“‘I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you.

I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight.

I will put your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your maggot-infested carcass.

I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

then he promises, “I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

I will make Ahab’s dynasty like those of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.

I will place the key to the house of David on his shoulder. When he opens the door, no one can close it; when he closes the door, no one can open it.

I am bringing my deliverance near, it is not far away; I am bringing my salvation near, it does not wait. I will save Zion; I will adorn Israel with my splendor.”

I will bring on you lasting shame and lasting disgrace which will never be forgotten!’”

I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

‘But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.

I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the sovereign Lord.”