27. “But with us, Lord, our God, you have dealt in all your clemency and in all your great mercy.
28. Thus you spoke through your servant Moses, the day you ordered him to write down your law in the presence of the Israelites:
29. ‘If you do not listen to my voice, surely this great and numerous throng will dwindle away among the nations to which I will scatter them.
30. For I know they will not listen to me, because they are a stiff-necked people. But in the land of their exile they shall have a change of heart;
31. they shall know that I, the Lord, am their God. I will give them a heart and ears that listen;