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, ^g21then also My covenant with My servant David ^hmay be broken so that he will not have a son reigning on his throne, and the Levitical priests will not be My ministers. ⁱ²²The hosts of heaven cannot be counted; the sand of the sea cannot be measured. ^jSo, too, I will make the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister to Me innumerable.”

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.’ ^kMy 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 fail to establish the fixed order of heaven and earth, ^l26then I might also reject the seed of Jacob and of My servant David—not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Instead, I will restore their fortunes ^mand have compassion on them.” ⁿ