Jeremiah 33:24

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Summary

Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

The two

Jeremiah 33:21

Psalm 94:14

Romans 11:1

Thus

General references

Psalm 44:9

Lamentations 3:31

Luke 1:54

Bible References

The two

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

Jehovah will not abandon his people. He will not desert those who belong to him.

I ask has God rejected his people? Certainly not! I also am an Israelite, a descendant of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Thus

And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said: What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they make themselves strong? Will they make offerings? Will they get the work done in a day? Will they make the stones that have been burned come again out of the dust?

But it was not enough for him to attack Mordecai only. They made clear to him who Mordecai's people were. So Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

You made us a reproach to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

They say: God has abandoned him. Pursue him and grab him because there is no one to rescue him.

They say: Come and let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.

Have mercy on us, O Jehovah, be gracious to us, for we are greatly filled with contempt.

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you. They make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. They say: Is this the town that was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

Get away! Unclean! They were cried out to them, Away! Away! Let no one touch. They went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.

Tell the Ammonites: 'Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah! The Lord Jehovah says: Because you said, Aha! Against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile,

Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I will be filled, now that she is laid waste.'

For the reason that you have said: 'These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,' although Jehovah was there.

'The Lord Jehovah says: Because the enemy has spoken against you, aha! And the everlasting heights have become our possession.

General references

Yet you have rejected and disgraced us. You do not even go along with our armies.

Jehovah does not give a man up for a very long time.

He has helped Israel his servant that he might remember mercy.