And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.’

They will forget their disgrace and all the treachery they committed against Me, when they dwell securely in their land, with no one to frighten them.

So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.

Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”

“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,

Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.