Jeremiah 33
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The Lord Promises to Heal His People
1Jeremiah was still being held as a prisoner. He was kept in the courtyard of the guard. Then another message from the Lord came to him. The Lord said, 2“I made the earth. I formed it. And I set it in place. The Lord is my name. 3Call out to me. I will answer you. I will tell you great things you do not know. And unless I do, you wouldn’t be able to find out about them.” 4The Lord is the God of Israel. He speaks about the houses in Jerusalem. He talks about the royal palaces of Judah. The people had torn down many of them. They had used their stones to strengthen the city walls against attack. 5That was during their fight with the armies of Babylon. The Lord says, “The houses will be filled with dead bodies. They will be the bodies of the people I will kill. I will kill them when I am very angry with them. I will hide my face from this city. That’s because its people have committed so many sins.
6“But now I will bring health and healing to Jerusalem. I will heal my people. I will let them enjoy great peace and security. 7I will bring Judah and Israel back from the places where they have been taken. I will build up the nation again. It will be just as it was before. 8I will wash from its people all the sins they have committed against me. And I will forgive all the sins they committed when they turned away from me. 9Then this city will bring me fame, joy, praise and honor. All the nations on earth will hear about the good things I do for this city. They will see the great success and peace I give it. Then they will be filled with wonder. And they will tremble with fear.”
10The Lord says, “You say about this place, ‘It’s a dry and empty desert. It doesn’t have any people or animals in it.’ The towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem are now deserted. So they do not have any people or animals living in them. But happy sounds will be heard there once more. 11They will be the sounds of joy and gladness. The voices of brides and grooms will fill the streets. And the voices of those who bring thank offerings to my house will be heard there. They will say,
“ ‘Give thanks to the Lord who rules over all,
because he is good.
His faithful love continues forever.’
That’s because I will bless this land with great success again. It will be as it was before,” says the Lord.
12The Lord who rules over all says, “This place is a desert. It does not have any people or animals in it. But there will again be grasslands near all its towns. Shepherds will rest their flocks there. 13Flocks will again pass under the hands of shepherds as they count their sheep,” says the Lord. “That will be done in the towns of the central hill country. It will be done in the western hills and the Negev Desert. It will be done in the territory of Benjamin. And it will be done in the villages around Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah.
14“The days are coming,” announces the Lord. “At that time I will fulfill my good promise to my people. I made it to the people of Israel and Judah.
15“Here is what I will do in those days and at that time.
I will make a godly Branch grow from David’s royal line.
He will do what is fair and right in the land.
16In those days Judah will be saved.
Jerusalem will live in safety.
And it will be called
The Lord Who Makes Us Right With Himself.”
17The Lord says, “David will always have a son to sit on the throne of Israel. 18The priests, who are Levites, will always have a man to serve me. He will sacrifice burnt offerings. He will burn grain offerings. And he will offer sacrifices.”
19A message from the Lord came to Jeremiah. 20The Lord said, “Could you ever break my covenant with the day? Could you ever break my covenant with the night? Could you ever stop day and night from coming at their appointed times? 21Only then could my covenant with my servant David be broken. Only then could my covenant with the Levites who serve me as priests be broken. Only then would David no longer have someone from his family line to rule on his throne. 22Here is what I will do for my servant David. And here is what I will do for the Levites who serve me. I will make their children after them as many as the stars in the sky. And I will make them as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. It will be impossible to count them.”
23A message from the Lord came to Jeremiah. The Lord said, 24“Haven’t you noticed what these people are saying? They say, ‘The Lord once chose the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah. But now he has turned his back on them.’ So they hate my people. They do not think of them as a nation anymore. 25I say, ‘What if I had not made my covenant with day and night? What if I had not established the laws of heaven and earth? 26Only then would I turn my back on the children of Jacob and my servant David. Only then would I not choose one of David’s sons to rule over the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will bless my people with great success again. I will love them with tender love.’ ”
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Jeremiah 33
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Excellence of the Restored Nation
1Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still #Jer. 32:2, 3shut up in the court of the prison, saying, 2“Thus says the Lord #Is. 37:26who made it, the Lord who formed it to establish it #Ex. 15:3; (Jer. 10:16); Amos 5:8; 9:6(the Lord is His name): 3#Ps. 91:15; (Is. 55:6, 7); Jer. 29:12‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
4“For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been pulled down to fortify against #Is. 22:10; Jer. 32:24; Ezek. 4:2; 21:22; Hab. 1:10the siege mounds and the sword: 5‘They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but only to #2 Kin. 23:14; Jer. 21:4–7; 32:5fill their places with the dead bodies of men whom I will slay in My anger and My fury, all for whose wickedness I have hidden My face from this city. 6Behold, #Jer. 30:17; Hos. 6:1I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. 7And #Ps. 85:1; Jer. 30:3; 32:44; Amos 9:14I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild those places #Is. 1:26; Jer. 24:6; 30:20; 31:4, 28; 42:10; Amos 9:14, 15as at the first. 8I will #Ps. 51:2; Is. 44:22; Jer. 50:20; Ezek. 36:25, 33; Mic. 7:18, 19; Zech. 13:1; (Heb. 9:11–14)cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me. 9#Is. 62:7; Jer. 13:11Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall #Is. 60:5fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.’
10“Thus says the Lord: ‘Again there shall be heard in this place—#Jer. 32:43of which you say, “It is desolate, without man and without beast”—in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, 11the #Jer. 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; Rev. 18:23voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say:
#1 Chr. 16:8; 2 Chr. 5:13; Ezra 3:11; Ps. 136:1; Is. 12:4“Praise the Lord of hosts,
For the Lord is good,
For His mercy endures forever”—
and of those who will bring #Lev. 7:12; Ps. 107:22; 116:17; Heb. 13:15the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first,’ says the Lord.
12“Thus says the Lord of hosts: #Is. 65:10; (Jer. 31:24; 50:19; Ezek. 34:12–15; Zeph. 2:6, 7)‘In this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall again be a dwelling place of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. 13#Jer. 17:26; 32:44In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks shall again #Lev. 27:32; (Luke 15:4)pass under the hands of him who counts them,’ says the Lord.
14#Jer. 23:5; 31:27, 31‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that #Is. 32:1; Jer. 29:10; 32:42; Ezek. 34:23–25; Hag. 2:6–9I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah:
15‘In those days and at that time
I will cause to grow up to David
A #Is. 4:2; 11:1; Jer. 23:5; Zech. 3:8; 6:12, 13Branch of righteousness;
He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
16In those days Judah will be saved,
And Jerusalem will dwell safely.
And this is the name by which she will be called:
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.’
17“For thus says the Lord: ‘David shall never #2 Sam. 7:16; 1 Kin. 2:4; Ps. 89:29; (Luke 1:32)lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; 18nor shall the #Num. 3:5–10; Deut. 18:1; 24:8; Josh. 3:3; Ezek. 44:15priests, the Levites, lack a man to #(Rom. 12:1; 15:16; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9; Rev. 1:6)offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually.’ ”
The Permanence of God’s Covenant
19And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 20“Thus says the Lord: ‘If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, 21then #2 Sam. 23:5; 2 Chr. 7:18; 21:7; Ps. 89:34My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. 22As #Gen. 15:5; 22:17; Jer. 31:37the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I #Jer. 30:19; Ezek. 36:10, 11multiply the descendants of David My servant and the #Is. 66:21; Jer. 33:18Levites who minister to Me.’ ”
23Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 24“Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have #Neh. 4:2–4; Esth. 3:6–8; Ps. 44:13, 14; 83:4; Ezek. 36:2despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.
25“Thus says the Lord: ‘If #Gen. 8:22; Jer. 33:20My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not #Ps. 74:16; 104:19appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, 26#Jer. 31:37then I will #Rom. 11:1, 2cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.’ ”
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