Jeremiah 33

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

² Thus sayssays YahwehYahweh who does it, YahwehYahweh who forms it to establish it; YahwehYahweh is his namename:

³ CallCall to me, and I will answeranswer you, and will showshow you greatgreat things, and difficult, which you don't knowknow.

⁴ For thus sayssays YahwehYahweh, 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 defense] 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 killed in my angeranger and in my wrathwrath, and for all whose wickednesswickedness I have hiddenhidden my faceface from this citycity:

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

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

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

⁹ [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 to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the goodgood and for all the peacepeace that I procure to it.

¹⁰ Thus sayssays YahwehYahweh: Yet again there shall be heardheard in this placeplace, about which you saysay, It is waste, without man and without animalanimal, even in the citiescities of JudahJudah, and in the streetsstreets of JerusalemJerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animalanimal,

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 those who saysay, Give thanks to Yahweh of ArmiesYahweh of Armies, for YahwehYahweh is goodgood, for his loving kindnesskindness endures foreverforever; [and of them] who bringbring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the househouse of YahwehYahweh. For I will cause the captivitycaptivity of the landland to returnreturn as at the firstthe first, sayssays YahwehYahweh.

¹² Thus sayssays Yahweh of ArmiesYahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this placeplace, which is waste, without man and without animalanimal, and in all its citiescities, 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 who numbersnumbers them, sayssays YahwehYahweh.

¹⁴ Behold, the daysdays comecome, sayssays YahwehYahweh, 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 to 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] by which she shall be calledcalled: YahwehYahweh our righteousnessrighteousness.

¹⁷ For thus sayssays YahwehYahweh: DavidDavid shall never wantwant a manman to sitsit on 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 The wordThe word of YahwehYahweh came to JeremiahJeremiah, saying,

²⁰ Thus sayssays YahwehYahweh: If you 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 on his thronethrone; and with the Levites the priestspriests, my ministersministers.

²² As the armyarmy of the skysky can't be numbered, neither the sandsand of the seasea measuredmeasured; so will I multiplymultiply the seedseed of DavidDavid my servantservant, and the Levites who ministerminister to me.

²³ The wordThe word of YahwehYahweh came to JeremiahJeremiah, saying,

²⁴ Don't consider what this peoplepeople has spokenspoken, saying, The twotwo familiesfamilies which YahwehYahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despisedespise my peoplepeople, that they should be no more a nationnation beforebefore them.

²⁵ Thus sayssays YahwehYahweh: If my covenant of day and nightnight fails, 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.