NSB(i)
34 »‘Then the land will enjoy its time to honor Jehovah while it lies deserted. You will be in your enemies' land. Then the land will joyfully celebrate its time to honor Jehovah.
35 »‘All the days it lies deserted, it will celebrate the time to honor Jehovah it never celebrated while you lived there.
36 »‘I will fill those who are left in the land of their enemies with despair. The sound of a windblown leaf will make them run. They will run away and fall, but no one will be chasing them.
37 »‘They will stumble over each other. Yet no one will be after them. They will not be able to stand up to their enemies.
38 »‘They will be destroyed among the nations. The land of their enemies will devour them.
39 »‘Those who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
40 »‘However if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors and the treacherous things they did to oppose me,
41 »‘I will oppose them and bring them into the lands of their enemies. Then, if they humble their uncircumcised hearts and accept their guilt,
42 »‘I will remember my promise to Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. I will also remember the land.
43 »‘The land, abandoned by them, will enjoy its time to honor Jehovah while it lies deserted without them. They must accept their guilt because they rejected my rules and looked at my laws with disgust.
44 »‘Even when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or look at them with disgust. I will not reject or cancel my promise to them, because I am Jehovah their God.