| New King James Version | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying, | 1While he was still confined in the guard's courtyard, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time: |
| 2“Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORD is His name): | 2"The LORD who made the earth, the LORD who forms it to establish it, Yahweh is His name, says this: |
| 3‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ | 3Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know. |
| 4“For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been pulled down to fortify against the siege mounds and the sword: | 4For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and the palaces of Judah's kings, the ones torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword: |
| 5‘They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but only to fill their places with the dead bodies of men whom I will slay in My anger and My fury, all for whose wickedness I have hidden My face from this city. | 5The people coming to fight the Chaldeans will fill the houses with the corpses of their own men that I strike down in My wrath and rage. I have hidden My face from this city because of all their evil. |
| 6Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. | 6Yet I will certainly bring health and healing to it and will indeed heal them. I will let them experience the abundance of peace and truth. |
| 7And I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild those places as at the first. | 7I will restore the fortunes of Judah and of Israel and will rebuild them as in former times. |
| 8I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me. | 8I will purify them from all the wrongs they have committed against Me, and I will forgive all the wrongs they have committed against Me, rebelling against Me. |
| 9Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.’ | 9This city will bear on My behalf a name of joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I will do for them. They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace I will bring about for them. |
| 10“Thus says the LORD: ‘Again there shall be heard in this place—of which you say, “It is desolate, without man and without beast”—in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, | 10"This is what the LORD says: In this place, which you say is a ruin, without man or beast--that is, in Judah's cities and Jerusalem's streets that are a desolation without man, without inhabitant, and without beast--there will be heard again |
| 11the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say: “Praise the LORD of hosts, For the LORD is good, For His mercy endures forever”— and of those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first,’ says the LORD. | 11a sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride, and the voice of those saying, Praise the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His faithful love endures forever as they bring thank offerings to the temple of the LORD. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as in former times, says the LORD. |
| 12“Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘In this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall again be a dwelling place of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. | 12"This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place--without man or beast--and in all its cities there will once more be a grazing land where shepherds may rest flocks. |
| 13In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks shall again pass under the hands of him who counts them,’ says the LORD. | 13The flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them in the cities of the hill country, the cities of the Judean foothills, the cities of the Negev, the land of Benjamin--the cities surrounding Jerusalem and Judah's cities, says the LORD. |
| 14‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the LORD, ‘that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah: | 14"Look, the days are coming"-- this is the LORD's declaration-- "when I will fulfill the good promises that I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah. |
| 15‘In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David A Branch of righteousness; He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. | 15In those days and at that time I will cause a Righteous Branch 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 safely. And this is the name by which she will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.’ | 16In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is what she will be named: Yahweh Our Righteousness. |
| 17“For thus says the LORD: ‘David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; | 17"For this is what the LORD says: David will never fail to have a man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel. |
| 18nor shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually.’ ” | 18The Levitical priests will never fail to have a man always before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices." |
| 19And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, | 19The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: |
| 20“Thus says the LORD: ‘If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, | 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, |
| 21then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. | 21then also My covenant with My servant David may be broken so that he will not have a son reigning on his throne, and the Levitical priests will not be My ministers. |
| 22As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’ ” | 22The hosts of heaven cannot be counted; the sand of the sea cannot be measured. So, too, I will make the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister to Me innumerable." |
| 23Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, | 23The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: |
| 24“Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them. | 24"Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, 'The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen.' My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them. |
| 25“Thus says the LORD: ‘If My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, | 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, |
| 26then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.’ ” | 26then 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 and have compassion on them." |
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