TSK · Jeremiah 13:11

For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.

But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!

They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.

[This city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: