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Jeremiah 33:21

Verse 21 of 26. The 33rd of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.

17For the LORD says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.

18The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”

19The LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,

20“The LORD says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time,

21then my covenant could also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levitical priests, my ministers.

22As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’”

23The LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,

24“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has the LORD cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”

25The LORD says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.