Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
39 I will give them a single purpose in life: to honor me for all time, for their own good and the good of their descendants.
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I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them.
40 I will make an eternal covenant with them. I will never stop doing good things for them, and I will make them fear me with all their heart, so that they will never turn away from me.
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I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.
41 I will take pleasure in doing good things for them, and I will establish them permanently in this land.
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I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.
42 "Just as I have brought this disaster on these people, so I am going to give them all the good things that I have promised.
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“This is what the LORD says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them.
43 The people are saying that this land will be like a desert where neither people nor animals live, and that it will be given over to the Babylonians. But fields will once again be bought in this land.
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Once more fields will be bought in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolate waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.’
44 People will buy them, and the deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed. This will take place in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah, and in the towns in the hill country, in the foothills, and in southern Judah. I will restore the people to their land. I, the Lord, have spoken."
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Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed and witnessed in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, because I will restore their fortunes, declares the LORD.”
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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