The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 33:16 (CSB)

In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely,
and this is what she will be named: The Lord Is Our Righteousness.[d]

[ d= Yahweh-zidkenu ]

 

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Jeremiah 33:17 (BSB)
For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

 

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Jeremiah 33:18 (NKJV)
nor shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually.’ ”

 

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Jeremiah 33:19 (CSB)

The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:

 

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Jeremiah 33:20 (CSB)

“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,

 

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Jeremiah 33:21 (NKJV)
then 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.

 

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Jeremiah 33:22 (BSB)
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

 

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Jeremiah 33:23 (NIV)

The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:

 

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Jeremiah 33:24 (NIV)

‘Have you not noticed that these people are saying, “The Lord has rejected the two kingdoms he chose”?
So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation.

 

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Jeremiah 33:25 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
Thus saith the LORD: If My covenant be not with day and night, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

 

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Jeremiah 33:26 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David My servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have compassion on them.'

 

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Jeremiah 34:1 (NKJV)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem and all its cities, saying,

 

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Jeremiah 34:2 (ESV)
“Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

 

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Jeremiah 34:3 (NIV)

You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and given into his hands.
You will see the king of Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face.
And you will go to Babylon.

 

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Jeremiah 34:4 (NIV)

‘“Yet hear the Lord’s promise to you, Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the Lord says concerning you:
you will not die by the sword;

 

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Jeremiah 34:5 (ESV)
You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word, declares the LORD.”

 

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Jeremiah 34:6 (NKJV)
Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

 

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Jeremiah 34:7 (CSB)

while the king of Babylon’s army was attacking Jerusalem and all of Judah’s remaining cities—
that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they were the only ones left of Judah’s fortified cities.

 

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Jeremiah 34:8 (CSB)

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah made a covenant
with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom to them.

 

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Jeremiah 34:9 (ESV)
that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.