⁸ I will purify them from all the iniquity they have committed against me,^(A) and I will forgive all the iniquities they have committed against me, rebelling against me. ⁹ This city will bear on my behalf a name of joy, praise, and glory^(B) before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the prosperity I will give them. They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace^(C) I will bring about for them.

¹⁰ “This is what the Lord says: In this place, which you say is a ruin,^(D) without people or animals—that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without people, without inhabitants, and without animals—there will be heard again