Jeremiah 33:14-26 - God's Covenant With David

¹⁴ Jehovah said: 'The time is coming when I will fulfill the promise that I made to the people of Israel and Judah. ¹⁵ At that time I will choose as king a righteous descendant of David. That king will do what is right and just throughout the land. ¹⁶ The people of Judah and of Jerusalem will be rescued and will live in safety. The city will be called Jehovah is Our Righteousness.'

¹⁷ I Jehovah promise that there will always be a descendant of David to be king of Israel ¹⁸ and that there will always be priests from the tribe of Levi to serve me and to offer burnt offerings, grain offerings, and sacrifices.'

¹⁹ Jehovah continued to speak to me: ²⁰ If you break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time, ²¹ 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. ²² I will increase the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who serve me in the same way as the stars of heaven that cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore that cannot be measured.'

²³ The word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah: ²⁴ Have you not observed what this people have said. They say, 'The two families Jehovah chose, he has rejected?' Thus they despise my people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight. ²⁵ Jehovah says: 'If My covenant for day and night do not stand and I have not established the fixed patterns of heaven and earth, ²⁶ then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant. And I would not take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will restore their prosperity and will show them love and compassion.'