Jeremiah 33:20–26

²⁰“This is what the Lord says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day^y and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time,^{z 21}then my covenant^a with David my servant—and my covenant with the Levites^b who are priests ministering before me—can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.^{c 22}I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless^d as the stars in the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.’ ”

²³The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ²⁴“Have you not noticed that these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two kingdoms^de he chose’? So they despise^f my people and no longer regard them as a nation.^{g 25}This is what the Lord says: ‘If I have not made my covenant with day and night^h and established the lawsⁱ of heaven and earth,^{j 26}then I will reject^k the descendants of Jacob^l and David my servant and will not choose one of his sons to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes^em and have compassionⁿ on them.’ ”