Hope for restoration
27 Lord our God, you have acted toward us in line with your great kindness and your great compassion,
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just as you spoke through your servant Moses on the day when you commanded him to write your Law in the presence of the Israelites. You said:
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If you don't listen to my voice, this great buzzing crowd will certainly turn into a small one among the nations where I'll scatter them.
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I knew that they wouldn't listen to me, because they are stubborn. But they will change their hearts while in the land of captivity.
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They will know that I am the Lord their God, and I'll give them a heart and ears that listen.
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They will praise me in the land of their captivity, and they will remember my name.
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They will turn away from their stubborn side and their wicked actions, because they will remember what happened to their ancestors who sinned in the Lord's presence.
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I'll bring them back to the land that I promised in a solemn pledge to their ancestors—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—and they will rule it. And I'll repopulate the land, and they will never decrease.
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I'll make an eternal covenant with them that I will be their God and they will be my people. I'll never again remove my people Israel from the land that I have given them.