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1 Moreover the
LORD’s word came
to Jeremiah the
second time, while
he was still locked
up in the
court of the
guard, saying,
2 “The
LORD who does
it, the LORD
who forms it
to establish it—the
LORD is his
name, says:
3 ‘Call
to me, and
I will answer
you, and will
show you great
and difficult
things, which you don’t
know.’
4 For
the LORD, the
God of Israel,
says 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:
5 ‘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,
6 behold,
I will bring
it health and
healing, and I
will cure them;
and I will
reveal to them
abundance of peace
and truth.
7 I
will restore the
fortunes of Judah
and Israel, and
will build them
as at the
first.
8 I
will cleanse them
from all their
iniquity by which
they have sinned
against me. I
will pardon all
their iniquities
by which they
have sinned
against me and
by which they
have transgressed
against me.
9 This city
will be to
me for a
name of joy,
for praise, and
for glory, before
all the nations
of the earth,
which will hear
all the good
that I do
to them, and
will fear and
tremble for all
the good and
for all the
peace that I
provide to it.’ ”
10 The
LORD says: “Yet
again there will
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,’
11 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 the LORD
of Armies, for
the LORD is
good, for his
loving kindness
endures forever;’
who bring
thanksgiving into
the LORD’s house.
For I will
cause the
captivity of
the land to
be reversed as at
the first,” says
the LORD.
12 The
LORD of Armies
says: “Yet again
there will 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.
13 In
the cities of
the hill country,
in the cities
of the lowland,
in the cities
of the South,
in the land of
Benjamin, in the
places around
Jerusalem, and in
the cities of
Judah, the flocks
will again pass
under the hands
of him who
counts them,” says
the LORD.
14 “Behold,
the days come,”
says the LORD, “that
I will perform
that good word
which I have
spoken concerning
the house of
Israel and
concerning the
house of Judah.
15 “In
those days and
at that time,
I will cause
a Branch of
righteousness to
grow up to
David.
He will execute
justice and
righteousness in
the land.
16 In
those days Judah
will be saved,
and Jerusalem
will dwell safely.
This is the
name by which
she will be
called:
The LORD our
righteousness.”
17 For
the LORD says: “David
will never lack
a man to sit
on the throne
of the house
of Israel.
18 The
Levitical priests won’t
lack a man
before me to
offer burnt
offerings, to burn
meal offerings,
and to do
sacrifice continually.”
19 The
LORD’s word came
to Jeremiah,
saying,
20 “The
LORD says: ‘If
you can break my
covenant of the
day and my
covenant of the
night, so that
there will not
be day and
night in their
time,
21 then
my covenant could
also be broken
with David my
servant, that
he won’t have a
son to reign
on his throne;
and with the
Levitical priests,
my ministers.
22 As
the army of
the sky can’t
be counted, and
the sand of
the sea can’t
be measured, so
I will multiply
the offspring of
David my servant
and the Levites
who minister to
me.’ ”
23 The
LORD’s word came
to Jeremiah,
saying,
24 “Don’t
consider what this
people has spoken,
saying, ‘Has the
LORD cast off
the two families
which he chose?’
Thus they despise
my people, that
they should be
no more a
nation before
them.”
25 The
LORD says: “If
my covenant of
day and
night fails, if I
have not appointed
the ordinances of
heaven and earth,
26 then
I will also
cast away the
offspring of Jacob,
and of David
my servant, so
that I will
not take of
his offspring to
be rulers over
the offspring of
Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob; for
I will cause
their captivity to
be reversed and
will have mercy
on them.”