Jeremiah 33:20–26

²⁰“Thus says the Lord, ‘If you can ^abreak My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

²¹then ^aMy covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.

²²‘As the ^ahost of heaven cannot be counted and the ^bsand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will ^cmultiply the ¹descendants of David My servant and the ^dLevites who minister to Me.’ ”

²³And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

²⁴“Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The ^atwo families which the Lord chose, He has ^brejected them’? Thus they ^cdespise My people, no longer are they as a nation ¹in their sight.

²⁵“Thus says the Lord, ‘If My ^acovenant for day and night stand not, and the ¹fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have ^bnot established,

²⁶then I would ^areject the ¹descendants of Jacob and David My servant, ²not taking from his descendants ^brulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will ^crestore their ³fortunes and will have ^dmercy on them.’ ”