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Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
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Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name :
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Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know .
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For thus says Yahweh , the God of Israel , concerning the houses of this city , and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah , which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword ;
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while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans , and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath , and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city :
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Behold, I will bring it health and cure , and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth .
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I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return , and will build them, as at the first .
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I will 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 against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.
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[This city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth , which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.
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Thus says Yahweh : Yet again there shall be heard in this place , about which you say , It is waste, without man and without animal , even in the cities of Judah , and in the streets of Jerusalem , that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal ,
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the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride , the voice of those who say , Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies , for Yahweh is good , for his loving kindness endures forever ; [and of them] who bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh . For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first , says Yahweh .
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Thus says Yahweh of Armies : Yet again shall there be in this place , which is waste, without man and without animal , and in all its cities , a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
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In the cities of the hill country , in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South , and in the land of Benjamin , and in the places about Jerusalem , and in the cities of Judah , shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh .
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Behold, the days come , says Yahweh , that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah .
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In those days , and at that time , will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David ; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land .
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In those days shall Judah be saved , and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] by which she shall be called : Yahweh our righteousness .
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For thus says Yahweh : David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel ;
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neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings , and to burn meal offerings , and to do sacrifice continually.
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The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah , saying,
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Thus says Yahweh : If you can break my covenant of the day , and my covenant of the night , so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
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then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant , that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne ; and with the Levites the priests , my ministers .
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As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured ; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant , and the Levites who minister to me.
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The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah , saying,
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Don't consider what this people has spoken , saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people , that they should be no more a nation before them.
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Thus says Yahweh : If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth ;
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then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob , and of David my servant , so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob : for I will cause their captivity to return , and will have mercy on them.