27. “I am the Lord God of all humanity. Nothing is too hard for me.
28. This is what the Lord says: I’m going to hand this city over to the Babylonians and King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. They will capture it.
29. “The Babylonians who are attacking this city will break in, set this city on fire, and burn it down. They will burn down the houses of people who made me furious by going up to the roofs to burn incense to Baal and to pour out wine offerings to other gods.
30. Ever since they were young, the people of Israel and Judah have done what I consider evil. The people of Israel have made me furious by what they’ve done,” declares the Lord.
31. “The people in this city have made me so angry and furious from the day they built it to this day. So now I must remove this city from my presence.
32. “The people of Israel and Judah have made me furious because they are evil. The people, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, and the Judeans and those who live in Jerusalem
33. have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn.
34. They set up their detestable idols in the temple that is called by my name, and they dishonored it.
35. In the valley of Ben Hinnom they built worship sites for Baal to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I didn’t ask them to do this. It never entered my mind. I didn’t make Judah sin.
36. “You have said this about the city, ‘Because of wars, famines, and plagues it will be handed over to the king of Babylon.’ Now this is what the Lord God of Israel says:
37. I am going to gather the people from all the lands where I scattered them in my anger, fury, and terrifying wrath. I will bring them back to this place and make them live here securely.
38. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
39. I will give them the same attitude and the same purpose so that they will fear me as long as they live. This will be for their own good and for the good of their children.
40. I will make an eternal promise to them that I will never stop blessing them. I will make them fear me so that they will never turn away from me.
41. I will enjoy blessing them. With all my heart and soul I will faithfully plant them in this land.
42. “This is what the Lord says: As I brought all these disasters on these people, so I will bring on them all these blessings that I have promised them.
43. You have said that this land is a wasteland, without people or animals living in it. You have also said that it has been handed over to the Babylonians. But people will once again buy fields in this land.