Jeremiah 33
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1A second message came from the Lord to Jeremiah while he was still being held in the courtyard of the guard.
2This is what the Lord says, the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who shaped it and set it in place, the Lord is his name: 3Call out to me, and I will answer you, explaining to you amazing, hidden things about which you don't have any idea. 4For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about Jerusalem's houses and the palaces of the kings of Judah that were demolished for materials to be used to defend against the siege ramps and the enemy attacks. 5They come to fight the Babylonians but will only fill those houses with the dead bodies of those I'm going to kill in my furious anger. I have given up on this city because of all its wickedness.
6But even so, in the future I will restore and repair it, and I will heal its people and give them lasting peace and safety. 7I will bring Judah and Israel back from exile and will make them as strong as before. 8I will wash away all their sins that they committed against me, and I will forgive all their guilt from when they sinned in rebelling against me.
9Then this city will bring me a glorious reputation, celebrated and praised by all the nations of the earth who get to hear of all the good things I do for it. They will tremble, amazed at how much good I have done for it, how I have made it so prosperous.
10This is what the Lord says: You call this place “a wasteland where there are no people or animals.” Well, here in the towns of Judah and in the empty streets of Jerusalem where no people or animals live, one day 11the sounds of joy and celebration will be heard there again, the happy voices of bride and bridegroom, and the shouts of praise of those bringing thank offerings to the Lord's Temple, saying: “Thank the Lord Almighty! For the Lord is good; his trustworthy love lasts forever.” For I will bring the land back from its “captivity” too, says the Lord.
12This is what the Lord Almighty says: In this wasteland where there are no people or animals, and in all its towns, once again there'll be pastures where shepherds can take their flocks. 13In all the towns, whether in the hill country, or the foothills, or the Negev, or the land of Benjamin or the towns around Jerusalem, or throughout the cities of Judah, flocks will once again be counted by their shepherds, says the Lord.
14Look! The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will keep my promise to do good to the people of Israel and Judah. 15At that time, right there and then, I will give you a good king from the line of David.#33:15. Literally, “I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch.” He will do what is just and right throughout the country. 16This is when Judah will be saved, and the people of Jerusalem will live in safety. This is the name he will be called: The Lord Who Makes Us Right.
17This is what the Lord says: David will always have a descendant who will be king of Israel, 18and the Levitical priests will always have a descendant to present burnt offerings, grain offerings, and sacrifices to me.
19A message from the Lord came to Jeremiah: 20This is what the Lord says: If you were able to break my agreement with the day and with the night, so that they wouldn't come at the right time, 21only then would my agreement be broken with David my servant and with the Levites who serve as my priests, so that David would not have a descendant to rule on his throne. 22In the same way that the stars of heaven can't be counted, and the sand on the seashore can't be measured, that's how many times I will multiply the number of my servant David's descendants and the Levites who serve me.
23Another message from the Lord came to Jeremiah: 24Have you heard what people are saying: “The Lord chose two families, but now he's rejected them”? So they look down on my people and don't consider them worthy of being called#33:24. “Worthy of being called” supplied for clarity. a nation. 25This is what the Lord says: Just as I can't break my agreement with the day and the night and the laws that regulate heaven and earth, 26so I can't reject the descendants of Jacob and of my servant David, and I can't fail to make his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will bring them back from exile and I will be kind to them.
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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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