²⁹ Yet when you seek the Lord, your God, from there, you shall indeed find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul.^{(A) 30} In your distress, when all these things shall have come upon you, you shall finally return to the Lord, your God, and listen to his voice. ³¹ Since the Lord, your God, is a merciful God, he will not abandon or destroy you, nor forget the covenant with your ancestors that he swore to them.^(B)

^40 [a]They will confess^(A) their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors in their treachery against me and in their continued hostility toward me, ⁴¹ so that I, too, had to be hostile to them and bring them into their enemies’ land. Then, when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, ⁴² I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac; and also my covenant with Abraham I will remember.^(B) The land, too, I will remember. ⁴³ The land will be forsaken by them, that in its desolation without them, it may make up its sabbaths, and that they, too, may make good the debt of their guilt for having spurned my decrees and loathed my statutes. ⁴⁴ Yet even so, even while they are in their enemies’ land, I will not reject or loathe them to the point of wiping them out, thus making void my covenant with them; for I, the Lord, am their God. ⁴⁵ I will remember for them the covenant I made with their forebears, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations,^(C) that I might be their God. I am the Lord.