Jeremiah 30-31.
Jeremiah continues to prophesy the fall and ruin of Jersualem and its people because of their sin.. some will see that death and die in Jersualem and some will survive and be carried off into exile to Babylon. Those who are exiled are told to settle down and live out their lives there.. submitting to the Babylon king and being good citizens there.. building up the city through prayer and trying to prosper the city. After the 70 years, God will return the people to Jerusalem and city will be fully restored - a seemingly impossible feat! But God will do it! And this time... things will be different. The point of this whole.. banishment-to-restoration experience... is that it will make God's people seek Him again with all of their heart. God's desire throughout this whole thing is to get the hearts of His beloved people back to Him. He wants their hearts again. They've wandered. He wants to be their one and only God again. It's that relationships He wants to restore, above all. He wants to restore the covenant with His people again.
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