Jer 33
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Moreover the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut
up in the court of the guard, saying,
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Thus says YHWH that does it, YHWH that forms it to establish it; YHWH is his name:
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Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult,
which you know not.
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For thus says YHWH, 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 defence] against
the mounds and against the sword;
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while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies
of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my anger, and for all whose wickedness
I have hid my face from this city:
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Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to
them abundance of peace and truth.
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And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and
will build them, as at the first.
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And I 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.
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And [this 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.
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Thus says YHWH: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof you say, It
is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets
of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,
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the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice
of the bride, the voice of them that say, Give thanks to YHWH of hosts, for YHWH is
good, for his lovingkindness [endures] for ever; [and of them] that bring [sacrifices
of] thanksgiving into the house of YHWH. For I will cause the captivity of the land
to return as at the first, says YHWH.
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Thus says YHWH of hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without
man and without beast, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing
their flocks to lie down.
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In 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 whom numbers
them, says YHWH.
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Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will perform that good word which I have
spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
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In 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.
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In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is
[the name] whereby she shall be called: YHWH our righteousness.
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For thus says YHWH: David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house
of Israel;
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neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings,
and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
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And the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah, saying,
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Thus says YHWH: 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;
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then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have
a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
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As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so
will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me.
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And the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah, saying,
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Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which YHWH
did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should
be no more a nation before them.
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Thus says YHWH: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed
the ordinances of heaven and earth;
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then 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.