New American Standard Bible 2020

Jeremiah 33:21-25

21then 1My covenant with David My servant may also be broken, so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers. 22As the 2heavenly 3lights cannot be counted, and the 4sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will 5multiply the 6descendants of My servant David and the 7Levites who serve Me.’”

23And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 24“Have you not observed what these people have asserted, saying, ‘The 8two families which the Lord chose, He has 9rejected them’? So they 10despise My people as no longer being a nation 11in their sight. 25This is what the Lord says: ‘If My 12covenant for day and night does not continue, and I have 13not established the 14fixed patterns of heaven and earth,

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 33:21 2 Sam 23:5; 2 Chr 7:18; 21:7 ↩
2. Jeremiah 33:22 Gen 15:5; Jer 31:37 ↩
3. Jeremiah 33:22 Lit host; i.e., sun, stars, etc. ↩
4. Jeremiah 33:22 Gen 22:17 ↩
5. Jeremiah 33:22 Ezek 37:24-27 ↩
6. Jeremiah 33:22 Lit seed ↩
7. Jeremiah 33:22 Is 66:21; Jer 33:18 ↩
8. Jeremiah 33:24 Is 7:17; 11:13; Jer 3:7, 8, 10, 18; 33:26; Ezek 37:22 ↩
9. Jeremiah 33:24 Jer 30:17 ↩
10. Jeremiah 33:24 Neh 4:2-4; Esth 3:6, 8, 9; Ps 44:13, 14; 83:4 ↩
11. Jeremiah 33:24 Lit to their faces ↩
12. Jeremiah 33:25 Gen 8:22; Jer 31:35, 36; 33:20 ↩
13. Jeremiah 33:25 Ps 74:16, 17 ↩
14. Jeremiah 33:25 Lit statutes ↩

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