34. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the lord. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”
35. It is the lord who provides the sun to light the dayand the moon and stars to light the night,and who stirs the sea into roaring waves.His name is the lord of Heaven’s Armies,and this is what he says:
36. “I am as likely to reject my people Israelas I am to abolish the laws of nature!”
37. This is what the lord says:“Just as the heavens cannot be measuredand the foundations of the earth cannot be explored,so I will not consider casting them awayfor the evil they have done.I, the lord, have spoken!
38. “The day is coming,” says the lord, “when all Jerusalem will be rebuilt for me, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
39. A measuring line will be stretched out over the hill of Gareb and across to Goah.
40. And the entire area—including the graveyard and ash dump in the valley, and all the fields out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the Horse Gate—will be holy to the lord. The city will never again be captured or destroyed.”