Jeremiah 33:20–26

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 come at their regular time,^{x 21}then also my covenant with my servant David^y may be broken. If that could happen, then he would not have a son reigning on his throne and the Levitical priests would not be my ministers.^{z 22}Even as the stars of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured,^aa so too I will make innumerable the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.”

²³The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ²⁴“Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families he had chosen.’^ab My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them. ²⁵This is what the Lord says: If I do not keep my covenant with the day and with the night, and if I fail to establish the fixed order of heaven and earth,^{ac 26}then I might also reject the descendants of Jacob and of my servant David. That is, I would not take rulers from his descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But in fact, I will restore their fortunes^A and have compassion on them.”^a