Jeremiah 33
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Israel’s Restoration
1While he was still confined in the guard’s courtyard, # Jr 32:2 the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time: 2“The Lord who made the earth, # LXX; MT reads made it the Lord who forms it to establish it, # Gn 2:18-19 Yahweh is His name, # Ex 6:3 says this: 3Call to Me and I will answer you # Ps 91:15; Jr 29:12 and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know. # Is 48:6 4For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and the palaces of Judah’s kings, the ones torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword: # Jr 32:24 5The people coming to fight the Chaldeans will fill the houses with the corpses of their own men that I strike down in My wrath and rage. I have hidden My face # Dt 31:17; 32:20; Is 54:8 from this city because of all their evil. 6Yet I will certainly bring health # Is 58:8; Jr 8:22; 30:17 and healing to it and will indeed heal them. I will let them experience the abundance # Or fragrance ; Hb obscure of peace and truth. # 2Kg 20:19; Est 9:30; Is 39:8 7I will restore the fortunes # Or will end the captivity of Judah and of Israel and will rebuild them as in former times. # Is 1:26 8I will purify them from all the wrongs they have committed against Me, # Ps 51:2; Ezk 36:25; Heb 9:11-14 and I will forgive all the wrongs they have committed against Me, rebelling against Me. 9This city will bear on My behalf a name of joy, praise, and glory # Dt 26:19; Jr 13:11; Zph 3:19-20 before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I will do for them. They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace # Jr 8:15; 14:19 I will bring about for them.
10“This is what the Lord says: In this place, which you say is a ruin, # Jr 32:43 without man or beast — that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without man, without inhabitant, and without beast — there will be heard again 11a sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride, # Jr 7:34; 16:9; 25:10 and the voice of those saying,
Praise the Lord of Hosts,
for the Lord is good;
His faithful love endures forever
as they bring thank offerings to the temple of the Lord. For I will restore the fortunes # Or will end the captivity of the land as in former times, says the Lord.
12“This is what the Lord of Hosts says: In this desolate place — without man or beast — and in all its cities there will once more be a grazing land where shepherds may rest flocks. # Is 65:10; Ezk 34:12-15 13The flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them # Lv 27:32 in the cities of the hill country, # Jr 17:26 the cities of the Judean foothills, the cities of the Negev, the land of Benjamin — the cities surrounding Jerusalem and Judah’s cities, says the Lord.
God’s Covenant with David
14“Look, the days are coming” —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
“when I will fulfill the good promises
that I have spoken
concerning the house of Israel
and the house of Judah. # Jos 21:45; Jr 23:5-6
15In those days and at that time
I will cause a Righteous Branch # Is 4:2; Zch 3:8
to sprout up for David,
and He will administer justice
and righteousness in the land.
16In those days Judah will be saved,
and Jerusalem will dwell securely, # Dt 33:12
and this is what she will be named:
Yahweh Our Righteousness.
17“For this is what the Lord says: David will never fail to have a man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel. # 1Kg 2:4; 8:25; 9:5 18The Levitical priests will never fail to have a man always before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices.” # Jr 31:36; 35:19
19The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 20“This is what the Lord says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night so that day and night cease to come at their regular time, # Gn 8:22; Is 54:9-10; Jr 31:35-37 21then also My covenant with My servant David # 2Sm 7:11-16; 2Ch 21:7; Ps 89:3 may be broken so that he will not have a son reigning on his throne, and the Levitical priests will not be My ministers. # Is 61:6; Ezk 45:4-5; Jl 1:9,13 22The hosts of heaven cannot be counted; the sand of the sea cannot be measured. # Gn 22:17 So, too, I will make the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister to Me innumerable.”
23The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 24“Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families He had chosen.’ # Dt 7:6; 14:2 My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them. 25This is what the Lord says: If I do not keep My covenant with the day and with the night and fail to establish the fixed order of heaven and earth, # Ps 74:16-17 26then I might also reject the seed of Jacob and of My servant David — not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Instead, I will restore their fortunes # Or Instead, I will end their captivity and have compassion on them.” # Jr 12:15; 30:18; 31:20; 33:7; 42:12
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Jeremiah 33
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1 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still confined to the atrium of the prison, saying:
2 "Thus says the Lord, who will prepare, and form, and accomplish it; the Lord is his name.
3 Cry out to me and I will heed you. And I will announce to you great things, things that are certain, though you do not know them.
4 For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to the houses of this city, and to the houses of the king of Judah, which have been destroyed, and to the fortifications, and to the sword
5 of those who have arrived, so that they may fight with the Chaldeans, and so that they may have their fill of the dead bodies of the men whom I have struck down in my fury and in my indignation, concealing my face from this city, because of all their wickedness:
6 Behold, I will lead over them scars and health, and I will cure them. And I will reveal to them an invocation of peace and truth.
7 And I will convert the turning away of Judah and the turning away of Jerusalem. And I will build them up, just as from the beginning.
8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me. And I will forgive all their iniquities, by which they have offended against me and have despised me.
9 And this will be for me: a name, and a joy, and a praise, and an exultation, among all the nations of the earth who will hear about all the good things that I will accomplish for them. And they will be afraid and troubled over all these good things, and over all the peace, that I will accomplish for them.
10 Thus says the Lord: Still shall there be heard in this place, (which you say is desolate, because there is neither man nor beast,) and in the cities of Judah and outside of Jerusalem, (which are desolate, without man, and without an inhabitant and without cattle,)
11 the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say: 'Confess to the Lord of hosts! For the Lord is good! For his mercy is eternal!' and the voice of those fulfilling their vows in the house of the Lord. For I will lead back the turning away of the land, just as from the beginning, says the Lord."
12 Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Still shall there be in this place, (which is desolate without man and without beast,) and in all of its cities: a habitation for the shepherds giving rest to their flocks.
13 For even in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities on the plains, and in the cities that are toward the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and all around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, still shall the flocks travel by the hand of him who numbers them, says the Lord.
14 Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the good word that I have spoken to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15 In those days and at that time, I will cause the seedling of justice to spring up from David, and he will accomplish judgment and justice upon the earth.
16 In those days, Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will live in confidence. And this is the name that they will call him: 'The Lord, our Just One.'
17 For thus says the Lord: There shall not cease to be a man from David sitting upon the throne of the house of Israel.
18 And there shall not cease to be a man from the priests and from the Levites before my face, who offers holocausts, and burns sacrifices, and kills victims, for days without end."
19 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying:
20 "Thus says the Lord: If my covenant with the day is able to be nullified, or my covenant with the night, such that there would be no day and no night in their time,
21 then, too, my covenant with David, my servant, may be nullified, such that he would not have a son who reigns upon his throne, with both the Levites and the priests as my ministers.
22 Just as the stars of heaven are not able to be numbered, and the sand of the sea is not able to be measured, so will I multiply the offspring of David, my servant, and the Levites, my ministers."
23 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying:
24 "Have you not seen what this people has spoken? They say: 'The two families which the Lord had chosen have been rejected.' And so they have despised my people, as if they were no longer a nation in their sight.
25 Thus says the Lord: If I have not established my covenant with the day and the night, and my laws over heaven and earth,
26 then truly I will also cast aside the offspring of Jacob, and of David, my servant, so that I do not take up any of his offspring to be leaders over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will lead back their turning way, and I will take pity on them."
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