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¹ Moreover the word of the LORD came to Yirmeyahu the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying, ² Thus says the LORD who does it, the LORD who forms it to establish it; the LORD is his name: ³ Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know. ⁴ For thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Yehudah, which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword; ⁵ while [men] come to fight with the Kasdim, 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 hid my face from this city: ⁶ Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of shalom and truth. ⁷ I will cause the captivity of Yehudah and the captivity of Yisra'el to return, and will build them, as at the first. ⁸ I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby 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 eretz, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the shalom that I procure to it.

¹⁰ Thus says the LORD: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Yehudah, and in the streets of Yerushalayim, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal, ¹¹ the 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 the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good, for his lovingkindness endures forever; [and of them] who bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says the LORD. ¹² Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all the cities of it, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. ¹³ In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Binyamin, and in the places about Yerushalayim, and in the cities of Yehudah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says the LORD. ¹⁴ Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Yisra'el and concerning the house of Yehudah. ¹⁵ In 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. ¹⁶ In those days shall Yehudah be saved, and Yerushalayim shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] whereby she shall be called: the LORD our righteousness.

¹⁷ For thus says the LORD: David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Yisra'el; ¹⁸ neither shall the Kohanim the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. ¹⁹ The word of the LORD came to Yirmeyahu, saying, ²⁰ Thus says the LORD: 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; ²¹ then 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 Kohanim, my ministers. ²² As the host of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me. ²³ The word of the LORD came to Yirmeyahu, saying, ²⁴ Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. ²⁵ Thus says the LORD: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and eretz; ²⁶ then will I also cast away the seed of Ya`akov, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya`akov: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.