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Chapter 30

Compassion for the Repentant. [a](A)When all these things, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, come upon you,(B) and you take them to heart in any of the nations where the Lord, your God, has dispersed you, (C)and return to the Lord, your God, obeying his voice, according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your children, with your whole heart and your whole being, the Lord, your God, will restore your fortunes and will have compassion on you; he will again gather you from all the peoples where the Lord, your God, has scattered you.

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Footnotes

  1. 30:1–5 Text such as this suggests a postexilic perspective; cf. also chaps. 31–32.

30 For I know they will not listen to me, because they are a stiff-necked people. But in the land of their exile they shall have a change of heart;(A) 31 they shall know that I, the Lord, am their God. I will give them a heart and ears that listen;(B) 32 and they shall praise me in the land of their exile, and shall remember my name.(C)

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