26 verses
1Moreover the word of ForeverOne came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying, 2Thus says ForeverOne who does it, ForeverOne who forms it to establish it; ForeverOne is his name: 3Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.
4For thus says ForeverOne, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword; 5while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city: 6Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
7I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
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 against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.
9[This city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.
10Thus says ForeverOne: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal, 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 say, Give thanks to ForeverOne of Armies, for ForeverOne is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of ForeverOne. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says ForeverOne.
12Thus says ForeverOne of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says ForeverOne.
14Behold, the days come, says ForeverOne, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
15In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
16In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] by which she shall be called: ForeverOne our righteousness.
17For thus says ForeverOne: David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; 18neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
19The word of ForeverOne came to Jeremiah, saying, 20Thus says ForeverOne: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season; 21then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
22As the army of the sky can't be counted, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.
23The word of ForeverOne came to Jeremiah, saying, 24"Don't consider what this people has spoken, saying, 'Has ForeverOne rejected the two families which he chose?' Thus they despise my people, that they should no longer be a nation before them." 25Thus says ForeverOne: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26then I also will reject the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not select rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob from his offspring; for I will cause their captivity to be reversed, and will have mercy on them.
