Jeremiah 33

The Excellence of the Restored Nation

¹While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of Yahweh came to him a second time: ²“Thus says Yahweh who made the earth, Yahweh who formed it and established it, Yahweh is His name: ³Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

• JER 33:3[NOTABLE]God invites you to ask, and He answers. Spoken while Jeremiah was locked up.
• JER 33:3[NOTE]CALL TO ME. Spoken while Jeremiah was locked up in the guard courtyard, 33:1.

⁴For this is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword: ⁵The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.

⁶Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. ⁷I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times. ⁸And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.

⁹So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.

¹⁰This is what Yahweh says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again ¹¹the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of Yahweh, saying:

‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Hosts,

for Yahweh is good;

His loving devotion endures forever.’

For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says Yahweh.

¹²This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks. ¹³In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says Yahweh.

The Covenant with David

¹⁴Behold, the days are coming,

declares Yahweh,

when I will fulfill the gracious promise

that I have spoken

to the house of Israel

and the house of Judah.

• JER 33:14[PROPHECY]A righteous Branch from David's line → LK 3:23-31

¹⁵In those days and at that time

I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch,

and He will administer justice

and righteousness in the land.

¹⁶In those days Judah will be saved,

and Jerusalem will dwell securely,

and this is the name by which it 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 priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices.”

¹⁹And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah: ²⁰“This is what Yahweh says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time, ²¹then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne. ²²As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

²³Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah: ²⁴“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘Yahweh has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation. ²⁵This is what Yahweh says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth, ²⁶then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”