Old Testament · Jeremiah

Jeremiah 33

The Excellence of the Restored Nation

1And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard, saying: 2Thus says the LORD its maker, the LORD who forms it to establish it, the LORD is his name: 3Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and inaccessible things which you do not know.

4For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which are broken down for the siege-mounds and for the sword: 5they come to fight with the Chaldeans, but to fill them with the corpses of the man^a whom I struck in my anger and in my wrath, and because I hid my face from this city for all their evil:

6Behold, I am bringing up for it healing and cure, and I will heal them, and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth. 7And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and I will build them as at the first. 8And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they sinned against me and by which they transgressed against me.

9And it will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear all the good that I am doing for them; and they will fear and tremble over all the good and over all the peace that I am doing for it.

10Thus says the LORD: Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say: It is waste, without man and without beast—in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast— 11the 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 the LORD of hosts^b, for the LORD is good, for his kindness is forever—of those who bring thanksgiving to the house of the LORD; for I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says the LORD.

12Thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet again there will be in this place which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing the flock to lie down. 13In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the Negev, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flock will yet pass under the hands of him who counts them, says the LORD.

The Covenant with David

14Behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, that I will establish the good word which I spoke concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
15In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a Branch of righteousness, and he will do judgment^c and righteousness in the land.
16In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell in safety; and this is what she will be called: the LORD our Righteousness.

17For thus says the LORD: There will not be cut off from David a man^d sitting upon the throne of the house of Israel; 18and from the priests, the Levites, there will not be cut off a man from before me, offering up a burnt offering and burning a grain offering and doing sacrifice all the days.

19And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying: 20Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant^e with the day and my covenant with the night, so that there not be day and night in their season, 21also my covenant will be broken with David my servant, that he not have a son reigning upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers. 22As the host of the heavens cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.

23And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying: 24Have you not seen what this people have spoken, saying: The two families which the LORD chose, he has rejected them? And they spurn my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25Thus says the LORD: If my covenant of day and night, the statutes^f of the heavens and earth, I have not appointed, 26also the seed of Jacob and David my servant I would reject, from taking from his seed rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have compassion on them.