Jeremiah 33:6–16

⁶Yet I will certainly bring health^h and healing to it and will indeed heal them. I will let them experience the abundance^A of true peace.^{i 7}I will restore the fortunes of Judah and of Israel and will rebuild them as in former times.^{j 8}I will purify them from all the iniquity they have committed against me,^k and I will forgive all the iniquities they have committed against me, rebelling against me. ⁹This city will bear on my behalf a name of joy, praise, and glory^l before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the prosperity I will give them. They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace^m I will bring about for them.

¹⁰“This is what the Lord says: In this place, which you say is a ruin,ⁿ without people or animals—that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without people, without inhabitants, and without animals—there will be heard again ¹¹a sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride,^o and the voice of those saying,

Give thanks to the Lord of Armies,

for the Lord is good;

his faithful love endures forever

as they bring thanksgiving sacrifices to the temple of the Lord. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as in former times, says the Lord.

¹²“This is what the Lord of Armies says: In this desolate place—without people or animals—and in all its cities there will once more be a grazing land where shepherds may rest flocks.^{p 13}The flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them^q in the cities of the hill country,^r the cities of the Judean foothills, the cities of the Negev, the land of Benjamin—the areas around Jerusalem and in Judah’s cities, says the Lord.

GOD’S COVENANT WITH DAVID

¹⁴“Look, the days are coming”—

this is the Lord’s declaration—

“when I will fulfill the good promise

that I have spoken

concerning the house of Israel

and the house of Judah.^s

¹⁵In those days and at that time

I will cause a Righteous Branch^t

to sprout up for David,

and he will administer justice

and righteousness in the land.

¹⁶In those days Judah will be saved,

and Jerusalem will dwell securely,^u

and this is what she will be named:

The Lord Is Our Righteousness.^C