1Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the courtyard of the guard, saying,
2“This is what Yahweh who made the earth, Yahweh who formed it to establish it, says—Yahweh is his name:
3Call to me and I will answer you, and will show you great and hidden things that you do not know.
4For this is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah that have been torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps, and against the sword;
5they are coming to fight against the Chaldeans, but only to fill those houses with the dead bodies of men whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.
6But behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will heal them, and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.
7I will turn back the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel, and I will build them as at the first.
8I will cleanse them from all their iniquity that they have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities that they have sinned against me and that they have transgressed against me.
9This city will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory before all the nations of the earth that will hear all the good that I do to them. And they will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.
10This is what Yahweh 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,
11the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom 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 the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.
12This is what Yahweh of Armies says: Yet again will there be in this place that is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the Negev and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, will the flocks again pass under the hands of him who counts them, says Yahweh.
14Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that good word that I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
15In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to grow up for David; and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
16In those days will Judah be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely, and this is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
17For this is what Yahweh says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
18nor will the Levitical priests lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn grain offerings into smoke, and to make sacrifices continually.”
19The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
20“This is what 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 season,
21then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he will not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
22As the army of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea be measured, so I will multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.”
23The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
24“Have you not considered what these people have said? They say ‘The two families that Yahweh chose, he has cast them off.’ Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
25This is what Yahweh says: If my covenant with day and night is not established, and if I did not appoint the ordinances of heaven and earth,
26then I will 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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