28 “And it must occur that just as I had kept alert toward them+ to uproot and to pull down and to tear down and to destroy and to do damage,+ so I shall keep alert toward them to build up and to plant,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.
31 ‘For this city, from the day that they built it, clear down to this day, has proved to be nothing but a cause of anger in me+ and a cause of rage in me, in order to remove it from before my face,+
7 From the days of YOUR forefathers YOU have turned aside from my regulations and have not kept [them].+ Return to me, and I will return to YOU,”+ Jehovah of armies has said.