The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Jeremiah 33
1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to
Jeremiah the second time, while he was
still locked up in the court of the guard,
saying,
2 “Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who
forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his
name, says:
3 ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and
will show you great and difficult things,
which you don’t know.’
4 For 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
againstthe mounds and againstthe sword:
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,
6 behold, I will bring it health and healing,
and I will cure them; and I will reveal
to them abundance of peace and truth.
7 I will restore the fortunes of Judah and
Israel, and will build them as at the first.
8 I 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.
9 This 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.
10 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,’
11 the 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 ofthe land to be reversed as atthe
first,” says Yahweh.
12 Yahweh 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.
13 In 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.
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.
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.
16 In those days Judah will be saved,
and Jerusalem will dwell safely.
This is the name by which she will be
called: Yahweh our righteousness.
17 For Yahweh says: “David will never
lack a man to sit on the throne of the house
of Israel.
18 The Levitical priests won’t lack a man
before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn
meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
19 Yahweh’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,
21 then 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.
22 As 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.
23 Yahweh’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.”
25 Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day
and night fails, if I have not appointed the
ordinances of heaven and earth,
26 then 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.”