Jeremiah 33

¹ Moreover the wordthe word of JehovahJehovah came unto JeremiahJeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the courtcourt of the guard, saying,

² Thus saithsaith JehovahJehovah that doeth it, JehovahJehovah that formeth it to establish it; JehovahJehovah is his namename:

³ CallCall unto me, and I will answeranswer thee, and will showshow thee greatgreat things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.

⁴ For thus saithsaith JehovahJehovah, the GodGod of IsraelIsrael, concerning the houseshouses of this citycity, and concerning the houseshouses of the kingskings of JudahJudah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against the moundsmounds and against the swordsword;

⁵ while [men] comecome to fight with the ChaldeansChaldeans, and to fillfill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slainslain in mine angeranger and in my wrathwrath, and for all whose wickednesswickedness I have hidhid my faceface from this citycity:

⁶ Behold, I will bring it healthhealth and curecure, and I will curecure them; and I will reveal unto them abundance of peacepeace and truthtruth.

⁷ And I will cause the captivitycaptivity of JudahJudah and the captivitycaptivity of IsraelIsrael to returnreturn, and will buildbuild them, as at the firstthe first.

⁸ And I will cleanse them from all their iniquityiniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquitiesiniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

⁹ And [this city] shall be to me for a namename of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nationsnations of the earthearth, which shall hearhear all the goodgood that I do unto them, and shall fear and tremble for all the goodgood and for all the peacepeace that I procure unto it.

¹⁰ Thus saithsaith JehovahJehovah: Yet again there shall be heardheard in this placeplace, whereof ye saysay, It is waste, without man and without beastbeast, even in the citiescities of JudahJudah, and in the streetsstreets of JerusalemJerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beastbeast,

¹¹ the voicevoice of joy and the voicevoice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroomvoice of the bridegroom and the voicevoice of the bridebride, the voicevoice of them that saysay, Give thanks to Jehovah of hostsJehovah of hosts, for JehovahJehovah is goodgood, for his lovingkindness [endureth] for everever; [and of them] that bringbring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the househouse of JehovahJehovah. For I will cause the captivitycaptivity of the landland to returnreturn as at the firstthe first, saithsaith JehovahJehovah.

¹² Thus saithsaith Jehovah of hostsJehovah of hosts: Yet again shall there be in this placeplace, which is waste, without man and without beastbeast, and in all the citiescities thereof, a habitation of shepherdsshepherds causing their flocksflocks to lie down.

¹³ In the citiescities of the hillhill-countrycountry, in the citiescities of the lowland, and in the citiescities of the SouthSouth, and in the landland of BenjaminBenjamin, and in the places about JerusalemJerusalem, and in the citiescities of JudahJudah, shall the flocksflocks again passpass underunder the handshands of him that numbereth them, saithsaith JehovahJehovah.

¹⁴ Behold, the daysdays comecome, saithsaith JehovahJehovah, that I will perform that goodgood wordword which I have spokenspoken concerning the househouse of IsraelIsrael and concerning the househouse of JudahJudah.

¹⁵ In those daysdays, and at that timetime, will I cause a Branch of righteousnessrighteousness to growgrow up unto DavidDavid; and he shall execute justicejustice and righteousnessrighteousness in the landland.

¹⁶ In those daysdays shall JudahJudah be savedsaved, and JerusalemJerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] whereby she shall be calledcalled: JehovahJehovah our righteousnessrighteousness.

¹⁷ For thus saithsaith JehovahJehovah: DavidDavid shall never wantwant a manman to sitsit upon the thronethrone of the househouse of IsraelIsrael;

¹⁸ neither shall the priestspriests the Levites wantwant a manman beforebefore me to offer burnt-offeringsofferings, and to burn meal-offeringsofferings, and to do sacrifice continually.

¹⁹ And the wordthe word of JehovahJehovah came unto JeremiahJeremiah, saying,

²⁰ Thus saithsaith JehovahJehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the dayday, and my covenant of the nightnight, so that there shall not be dayday and nightnight in their season;

²¹ then may also my covenant be broken with DavidDavid my servantservant, that he shall not have a sonson to reignreign upon his thronethrone; and with the Levites the priestspriests, my ministersministers.

²² As the host of heavenhost of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sandsand of the seasea measuredmeasured; so will I multiplymultiply the seedseed of DavidDavid my servantservant, and the Levites that ministerminister unto me.

²³ And the wordthe word of JehovahJehovah came to JeremiahJeremiah, saying,

²⁴ Considerest thou not what this peoplepeople have spokenspoken, saying, The twotwo familiesfamilies which JehovahJehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they despisedespise my peoplepeople, that they should be no more a nationnation beforebefore them.

²⁵ Thus saithsaith JehovahJehovah: If my covenant of day and nightnight [standstand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earthheaven and earth;

²⁶ then will I also cast away the seedseed of JacobJacob, and of DavidDavid my servantservant, so that I will not take of his seedseed to be rulers over the seedseed of AbrahamAbraham, IsaacIsaac, and JacobJacob: for I will cause their captivitycaptivity to returnreturn, and will have mercy on them.