The Book of Jeremiah (WEB)
33: 1Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up
in the court of the guard, saying, 33:2Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to
establish it; Yahweh is his name: 33:3Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great
things, and difficult, which you don't know. 33:4For 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; 33:5while 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 hid my face from this city: 33:6Behold,
I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace
and truth. 33:7I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build
them, as at the first. 33:8I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against
me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they
have transgressed against me. 33:9This 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. 33:10Thus says Yahweh:
Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof 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, 33:11the 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 Yahweh
of Hosts, for Yahweh is good, for his lovingkindness 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. 33:12Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Yet again shall there be in this
place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all the cities of it, a habitation of
shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. 33:13In 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. 33:14Behold, 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.
33:15In 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. 33:16In those days shall Judah be saved, and
Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name whereby she shall be called: Yahweh our
righteousness. 33:17For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the
house of Israel; 33:18neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt
offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 33:19The word of Yahweh
came to Jeremiah, saying, 33:20Thus 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; 33:21then 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. 33:22As the host 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. 33:23The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, 33:24Don't you 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. 33:25Thus says
Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven
and earth; 33:26then 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.
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