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'Their leader shall be one of them, And their ruler will come out from their midst; And I will bring him near and he shall approach Me; For who would dare to risk his life to approach Me?' declares the LORD.

'You shall be My people, And I will be your God.'"

"At that time," declares the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people."

"For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD: "I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

"And the entire valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it will not be uprooted or overthrown ever again."

"They shall be My people, and I will be their God;

'In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch of David sprout; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.

"For this is what the LORD says: 'David shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

and the Levitical priests shall not lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to prepare sacrifices continually.'"

"At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you for six years, and you shall send him out free from you." But your forefathers did not obey Me nor incline their ear to Me.

But they said, "We will not drink wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, 'You shall not drink wine, you or your sons, forever.

'You shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed nor plant a vineyard, nor own one; but you shall live in tents all your days, so that you may live many days in the land where you live as strangers.'

"So you go and read from the scroll, which you have written at my dictation, the words of the LORD to the people at the LORD'S house on a day of fasting. And you shall also read them to all the people of Judah who come from their cities.

"And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, 'This is what the LORD says: "You have burned this scroll, saying, 'Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make mankind and animals disappear from it?'"

'Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be thrown out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

And now you shall know for certain that you will die by the sword, by famine, or by plague in the place where you desire to go to reside.

"And I shall set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will depart from there safely.

"In return, hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are living in the land of Egypt: 'Behold, I have sworn by My great name,' says the LORD, 'that My name shall never be invoked again by the mouth of anyone of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, "As the Lord GOD lives."

"As I live," declares the King, Whose name is the LORD of armies, "One certainly shall come who is like Tabor among the mountains, Or like Carmel by the sea.

"I shall hand them over to those who are seeking their lives, that is, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to his officers. Afterward, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old," declares the LORD.