Jeremiah 33

1Moreover Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still locked up in the court of the guard, saying,Cross-references: Jer 32:2 · Jer 32:8 · Jer 37:21 · Jer 38:28 · 2Tim 2:9

2“Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his name, says:Cross-references: Ex 3:14 · Ex 6:3 · Ex 15:3 · Ps 87:5 · Ps 102:16 · Isa 14:32 · +12 more

3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’Cross-references: Deut 4:7 · Deut 4:29 · 1Ki 8:47 · Ps 25:14 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 91:15 · +17 more

4For Yahweh, 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:Cross-references: Jer 32:24 · Ezek 4:2 · Ezek 21:22 · Ezek 26:8 · Hab 1:10

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,Cross-references: Deut 31:17 · Deut 32:20 · Isa 1:15 · Isa 8:17 · Isa 64:7 · Jer 18:17 · +7 more

6behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Deut 32:39 · Ps 37:11 · Ps 67:2 · Ps 72:7 · Ps 85:10 · +22 more

7I will restore the fortunes of Judah and Israel, and will build them as at the first.Cross-references: Ps 14:7 · Ps 85:1 · Ps 126:1 · Ps 126:4 · Isa 1:26 · Isa 11:12 · +17 more

8I 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.Cross-references: Ps 51:2 · Ps 65:3 · Ps 85:2 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 44:22 · Isa 56:7 · +10 more

9This 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.’”Cross-references: Ex 15:14 · 2Chr 20:29 · Neh 6:16 · Esth 8:17 · Ps 40:3 · Ps 126:2 · +15 more

10Yahweh 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,’Cross-references: Jer 32:36 · Jer 32:43 · Ezek 37:11

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 Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 7:12 · 1Chr 16:8 · 1Chr 16:34 · 2Chr 5:13 · 2Chr 7:3 · 2Chr 20:21 · +30 more

12Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Isa 65:10 · Jer 17:26 · Jer 31:24 · Jer 32:43 · Jer 36:29 · Jer 50:19 · +5 more

13In 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 Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 27:32 · Jer 17:26 · Luke 15:4 · John 10:3

14“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.Cross-references: Gen 22:18 · Gen 49:10 · 1Chr 17:13 · Isa 7:14 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 32:1 · +23 more

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.Cross-references: 2Sam 23:2 · Ps 45:4 · Ps 45:7 · Ps 72:1 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 9:7 · +12 more

16In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”Cross-references: Deut 33:12 · Deut 33:28 · Isa 45:17 · Isa 45:22 · Isa 45:24 · Jer 23:6 · +9 more

17For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.Cross-references: 2Sam 3:29 · 2Sam 7:14 · 1Ki 2:4 · 1Ki 8:25 · 1Chr 17:11 · 1Chr 17:27 · +4 more

18The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”Cross-references: Deut 18:1 · Isa 56:7 · Isa 61:6 · Ezek 43:19 · Ezek 44:9 · Ezek 45:5 · +7 more

19Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,

20“Yahweh 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,Cross-references: Gen 8:22 · Ps 89:37 · Ps 104:19 · Isa 54:9 · Jer 31:35 · Jer 33:25

21then 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 23:5 · 2Chr 7:18 · 2Chr 21:7 · Ps 89:34 · Ps 132:11 · Ps 132:17 · +8 more

22As 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.’”Cross-references: Gen 13:16 · Gen 15:5 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 28:14 · Ps 22:30 · Ps 89:3 · +10 more

23Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,

24“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”Cross-references: Neh 4:2 · Esth 3:6 · Ps 44:13 · Ps 71:11 · Ps 83:4 · Ps 94:14 · +11 more

25Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,Cross-references: Gen 8:22 · Gen 9:9 · Ps 74:16 · Ps 104:19 · Jer 31:35 · Jer 33:20

26then 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.”Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ezra 2:1 · Ezra 2:70 · Isa 14:1 · Isa 54:8 · Jer 31:20 · +7 more