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Yahweh Will Pardon the People's Iniquity

¹ Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still ^(F1)(C1)confined in the court of the guard, saying,² "Thus says ^(C1)Yahweh who made ^(F1)the earth, Yahweh who formed it to establish it; ^(C2)Yahweh is His name,³ '^(C1)Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you ^(C2)great and mighty things, ^(C3)which you do not know.'⁴ "For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the ^(C1)houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which are torn down to make a defense against the ^(C2)siege ramps and against the sword,⁵ 'While they are coming to ^(C1)fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with the corpses of men whom I have struck down in My anger and in My wrath, and I have ^(C2)hidden My face from this city because of all their evil:⁶ 'Behold, I will bring to it ^(C1)health and healing, and I will heal them; and I will reveal to them an ^(C2)abundance of peace and truth.⁷ 'I will ^(F1)(C1)return the ^(F2)fortunes of Judah and the ^(F2)fortunes of Israel and will ^(C2)rebuild them as they were at first.⁸ 'And I will ^(C1)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 'And ^(F1)it will be to Me a ^(C1)name of joy, praise, and beauty before ^(C2)all the nations of the earth which will hear of all the ^(C3)good that I do for them, and they will ^(C4)be in dread and tremble because of all the good and all the peace that I make for it.'

¹⁰ "Thus says Yahweh, 'Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, "It is a ^(C1)waste, without man and without beast," that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are ^(C2)desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,¹¹ the voice of ^(C1)joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say,

"^(C2)Give thanks to Yahweh of hosts,
For Yahweh is good,
For His lovingkindness endures forever";
and of those who bring a ^(C3)thank offering into the house of Yahweh. For I will ^(F1)return the ^(F2)fortunes of the land as they were at first,' says Yahweh.

¹² "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'There will again be in this place which is waste, ^(C1)without man or beast, and in all its cities, ^(F1)an abode of shepherds who cause their ^(C2)flocks to lie down.¹³ 'In the ^(C1)cities of the hill country, in the cities of the ^(F1)Shephelah, in the cities of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin, in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again ^(C2)pass under the hands of the one who numbers them,' says Yahweh.

The Righteous Branch of David

¹⁴ 'Behold, ^(C1)days are coming,' declares Yahweh, 'when I will ^(C2)establish the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah.¹⁵ 'In those days and at that time I will cause a ^(C1)righteous Branch of David to branch forth; and He shall do ^(C2)justice and righteousness on the earth.¹⁶ 'In those days ^(C1)Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell in security; and this is the name by which she will be called: ^(C2)Yahweh is our righteousness.'¹⁷ "For thus says Yahweh, '^(F1)David shall ^(C1)not have a man cut off from sitting on the throne of the house of Israel;^18 (F1)and the ^(C1)Levitical priests shall not have a man cut off from before Me who is to offer burnt offerings, to offer up grain offerings in smoke, and to ^(C2)perform sacrifices ^(F2)continually.'"

¹⁹ Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,²⁰ "Thus says Yahweh, 'If you can ^(C1)break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,²¹ then ^(C1)My covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.²² 'As the ^(C1)host of heaven cannot be counted and the ^(C2)sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will ^(C3)multiply the seed of David My servant and the ^(C4)Levites who minister to Me.'"

²³ And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,²⁴ "Have you not seen what this people have spoken, saying, 'The ^(C1)two families which Yahweh chose, He has ^(C2)rejected them'? Thus they have ^(C3)spurned My people from being a nation any longer ^(F1)in their sight.²⁵ "Thus says Yahweh, 'If My ^(C1)covenant for day and night stand not, and the statutes for heaven and earth I have ^(C2)not established,²⁶ then I would ^(C1)reject the seed of Jacob and David My servant, ^(F1)not taking from his seed ^(C2)rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will ^(F2)(C3)return their ^(F3)fortunes and will have ^(C4)compassion on them.'"