Eze 37:23-26, Joe 3:17-21, Zec 8:3, 2Pe 3:13 | ESV | STEP | They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things , or with any of their transgressions . But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned , and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people , and I will be their God .

Ezekiel 37:23-26

23 ^aThey shall not ^bdefile themselves anymore ^cwith their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But ^dI will save them from all the backslidings ^{▼▼Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings} in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and ^fthey shall be my people, and I will be their God.

24 “My servant ^gDavid ^hshall be king over them, and they shall all have ⁱone shepherd. ^jThey shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25 ^kThey shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there ^lforever, and David my servant shall be their prince ^mforever. 26 ⁿI will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be ^oan everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks in their land} and ^qmultiply them, and will ^rset my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

Joel 3:17-21

The Glorious Future of Judah

17 ^s“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
^twho dwells in Zion, ^umy holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
and ^vstrangers shall never again pass through it.
18 “And in that day
^wthe mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and ^xall the streambeds of Judah
shall flow with water;
^yand a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
and water the Valley of ^zShittim.
19 ^aa“Egypt shall become a desolation
and ^abEdom a desolate wilderness,
^acfor the violence done to the people of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 ^adBut Judah shall be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem to all generations.
21 ^aeI will avenge their blood,
blood I have not avenged, ^{▼▼Or I will acquit their bloodguilt that I have not acquitted}
^agfor the Lord dwells in Zion.”

Zechariah 8:3

3 Thus says the Lord: ^ahI have returned to Zion and ^aiwill dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, ^ajand Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, ^akand the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.

2 Peter 3:13

13 But according to his promise we are waiting for ^alnew heavens and a new earth ^amin which righteousness dwells.