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    Jeremiah 33

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    A place declared empty of people and animals is promised the full racket of life: wedding voices, thanksgiving, and shepherds settling their flocks in the grass.

    The wasteland fills againvv. 1–13

    Jeremiah is still confined in the courtyard of the guard when the LORD speaks to him again, beginning with an invitation to call and be shown what he does not know. The city is presently a ruin under siege, with corpses to come and the LORD’s face hidden from it; nevertheless, healing, peace, forgiveness, and restoration are promised. The silence will be broken rather extravagantly: brides and bridegrooms, thankful worshippers, and shepherds with resting flocks. A wasteland, it turns out, is only waiting for its rather busy sequel.

    A branch for David, a man for the altarvv. 14–18

    The promise then narrows to a particular shape: a righteous Branch will sprout for David and administer justice. Judah will be saved, Jerusalem will dwell securely, and David will not lack a man on Israel’s throne. Nor will the Levites lack a man before the LORD to offer the several sorts of offerings. The future arrives here with both a royal seat and a well-stocked altar.

    Day, night, and the unbroken promisevv. 19–26

    The LORD returns to Jeremiah with a comparison of pleasingly enormous scale. David’s covenant and the Levites’ ministry would be breakable only if day and night could first be dismissed from their appointed hours. The people have been saying that the two chosen families are rejected, but the answer is a firm refusal: the descendants of Jacob and David will be restored, and compassion will have the last movement in this oracle.

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    1. Jer 33:1While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:

    2. Jer 33:2“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:

    3. Jer 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

    4. Jer 33:4For 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:

    5. Jer 33:5The 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.

    6. Jer 33:6Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

    7. Jer 33:7I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.

    8. Jer 33:8And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.

    9. Jer 33:9So 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.

    10. Jer 33:10This 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

    11. Jer 33:11the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.

    12. Jer 33:12This 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.

    13. Jer 33:13In 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.

    14. Jer 33:14Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

    15. Jer 33:15In 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.

    16. Jer 33:16In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

    17. Jer 33:17For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

    18. Jer 33:18nor 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.”

    19. Jer 33:19And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

    20. Jer 33:20“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,

    21. Jer 33:21then 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.

    22. Jer 33:22As 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.”

    23. Jer 33:23Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

    24. Jer 33:24“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.

    25. Jer 33:25This 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,

    26. Jer 33:26then 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.”

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 3Jeremiah 29:12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
    • 3Isaiah 65:24Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
    • 3Ephesians 3:20Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
    • 3Isaiah 48:6You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.
    • 3Luke 11:9–10So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
    • 3Deuteronomy 4:29But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
    • 3Psalms 145:18The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
    • 3Romans 10:12–13For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
    • 3Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
    • 3Acts 2:21And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
    • 31 Corinthians 2:7–11No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.
    • 3Micah 7:15As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.
    • 6John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
    • 6Isaiah 30:26The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
    • 6Titus 3:5–6He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
    • 6Psalms 67:2that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.

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