1And the word of LORD JEHOVAH was on Jeremiah the Prophet twice when he was still shut in the court of the Guard, and said 2Thus says LORD JEHOVAH, who made you, and he formed you, and he fashioned you; LORD JEHOVAH is his name 3Call me and I shall answer you and I shall show you great and powerful deeds that you have not known 4For thus says LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel concerning the households of this city, the households of the Kings of Judea that bands of robbers uprooted by the sword: 5They who came to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with carcasses of the children of men whom I killed in my anger and in my passion, and I turned my face from this city for all the evil that they had done before me 6Behold, I bring to it long healing and I shall heal them, and I shall reveal to them the paths of peace and of truth 7And I shall return the captivity of Judea and the captives of Israel, and I shall build them as from former times, and I shall do good to them as from the beginning 8And I shall purify them from all their evil that they have sinned before me, and I shall forgive all their debts that they had sinned against me, and what evil they did to me 9And you shall be to me for a name, and for sweetness, and for joy, and for boasting to all the nations of the Earth, and they shall hear all the good that I did with them, and they shall be afraid, and they shall be angry for all the good and for all the peace that I made for them

10Thus says LORD JEHOVAH: again in this place which you say is desolate of children of men and that is without animals in the villages of Judea, and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate of children of men and without an inhabitant and without beast there will be heard

11A sound of dancing and a sound of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the sound of those who say, ‘Give thanks to LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, because LORD JEHOVAH, is good and he is sweet, and his grace is to eternity!’ And they bring thanksgiving to the house of LORD JEHOVAH, because he returned the captivity of the land as at the first, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts

12Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: ‘Therefore in this place that is desolate of children of man, and unto the beast and among all its cities shall be lodges of Shepherds and folds of sheep 13In the villages of the mountains and in the villages of the plains and in the villages of the south and in the land of Benyamin and in the environs of Jerusalem and in the villages of Judea, therefore the sheep shall pass by the hands of the counters’, says LORD JEHOVAH

14Behold, days are coming, says LORD JEHOVAH, and I shall establish the good word that I said concerning those of the house of Israel, and concerning those of the house of Yehuda, says LORD JEHOVAH 15In those days and at that season I shall cause David to shine forth, The BrillianceShoot of Righteousness and he shall reign in the kingdom and he shall understand and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth 16In those days Yehuda shall be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell in quietness, and this is his name that they shall call him: “LORD JEHOVAH Our Righteousness” 17Because thus says LORD JEHOVAH: “David will not lack a son who dwells on the throne of the house of Israel 18And for the Priests and for the Levites a man will not fail from before me who brings burnt offerings and makes sacrifice and sets incense all of the days

19And the word of LORD JEHOVAH was on Jeremiah saying 20Thus says LORD JEHOVAH: “If you are able to nullify my administrations of the day and my administrations of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their times 21Also my covenant that I promised to David my Servant will be nullified, that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Priests and with the Levites, my Servants 22As the Host of Heaven is not numbered and the sand of the sea is not measured, in this way I shall multiply the seed of David, my Servant, and of the Levites who serve me

23And the word of LORD JEHOVAH was on Jeremiah, saying 24Do you not see what the people say: “The two tribes LORD JEHOVAH has chosen he has rejected”, and they anger my people, that it would not be a people before me?” 25Thus says LORD JEHOVAH: if there were not my covenant of day and of night, and I did not appoint the law of the Heavens and of Earth 26Also the seed of Yaqob and of David my Servant I shall reject, whom I shall take from his seed as Rulers over the house of Abraham and of Ishaq and of Yaqob, when I shall return their captivity, and I shall show love upon them