We just have to fulfill our part of the bargain. Stone Edition Chumash, Devarim 7.12 - 18...
This shall be the reward when you hearken to these ordinances, and you observe and perform them; Hashem, your God, will safeguard for you the covenant and the kindness that He swore to your forefathers.
He will love you, bless you and multiply you, and He will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your Land; your grain, your wine, and your oil; the offspring of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep and goats, on the Land that He swore to your forefathers to give you.
You will be the most blessed of all the peoples....
Hashem will remove from you every illness; and all the bad maladies of Egypt that you knew - He will not put them upon you, but He will put them upon all your foes.
You will devour all the peoples that Hashem, your God, will deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them; you shall not worship their gods, for it is a snare for you.
Perhaps you will say in your heart, "These nations are more numerous than I; how will I be able to drive them out?"
Do not fear them! You shall remember what Hashem, your God, did to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt.
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Haftarat Ekev, Yeshayahu 49.17...
Your children will hasten to repent, but your spoilers and your destroyers must depart from you.
My commentary: This says to me that all the actual Jews will repent, but the haters among us - the Erev Rav - will separate from us.
~ SHABBAT SHALOM ~
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