1While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him a second time:[ † ]Jeremiah 32:2-3 2“Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it and established it, the Lord is His name:[ † ]Isaiah 37:26Exodus 15:3Jeremiah 10:16Amos 5:8Amos 9:6 3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.[ † ]Psalms 91:15Isaiah 55:6-7Jeremiah 29:12
4For this is what the Lord, 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:[ † ]Isaiah 22:10Jeremiah 32:24Ezekiel 4:2Ezekiel 21:22Habakkuk 1:10 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.[ † ]2 Kings 23:14Jeremiah 21:4-7Jeremiah 32:5
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.[ † ]Jeremiah 30:17Hosea 6:1 7I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.[ † ]Psalms 85:1Jeremiah 30:3Jeremiah 32:44Amos 9:14Isaiah 1:26Jeremiah 24:6Jeremiah 30:20Jeremiah 31:4-28Jeremiah 42:10Amos 9:14-15 8And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.[ † ]Psalms 51:2Isaiah 44:22Jeremiah 50:20Ezekiel 36:25-33Micah 7:18-19Zechariah 13:1Hebrews 9:11-14
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.[ † ]Isaiah 62:7Jeremiah 13:11Isaiah 60:5
10This is what the Lord 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[ † ]Jeremiah 32:43
12This is what the Lord 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.[ † ]Isaiah 65:10Jeremiah 31:24Jeremiah 50:19Ezekiel 34:12-15Zephaniah 2:6-7 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 the Lord.[ † ]Jeremiah 17:26Jeremiah 32:44Leviticus 27:32Luke 15:4
17For this is what the Lord says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,[ † ]2 Samuel 7:161 Kings 2:4Psalms 89:29Luke 1:32 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.”[ † ]Numbers 3:5-10Deuteronomy 18:1Deuteronomy 24:8Joshua 3:3Ezekiel 44:15Romans 12:1Romans 15:161 Peter 2:5-9Revelation 1:6
19And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 20“This is what the Lord 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.[ † ]2 Samuel 23:52 Chronicles 7:182 Chronicles 21:7Psalms 89:34 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.”[ † ]Genesis 15:5Genesis 22:17Jeremiah 31:37Jeremiah 30:19Ezekiel 36:10-11Isaiah 66:21Jeremiah 33:18
23Moreover, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 24“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The Lord has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.[ † ]Nehemiah 4:2-4Esther 3:6-8Psalms 44:13-14Psalms 83:4Ezekiel 36:2 25This is what the Lord says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,[ † ]Genesis 8:22Jeremiah 33:20Psalms 74:16Psalms 104:19 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.”[ † ]Jeremiah 31:37Romans 11:1-2