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¹ And there is a word of YHWH to Jeremiah a second time—and he [is] yet detained in the court of the prison—saying:² "Thus said YHWH who has made it, YHWH who has formed it, to establish it, YHWH [is] His Name:³ Call to Me, and I answer you, indeed, I declare to you great and inaccessible things—you have not known them.⁴ For thus said YHWH, God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah that are broken down for the [siege] mounds, and for the tool;⁵ they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the carcasses of men, whom I have struck in My anger, and in My fury, and [for] whom I have hidden My face from this city, because of all their evil:⁶ Behold, I am increasing health and cure to it, || And have healed them, and revealed to them || The abundance of peace and truth.⁷ And I have turned back the captivity of Judah, || And the captivity of Israel, || And I have built them as at the first,⁸ And cleansed them from all their iniquity || That they have sinned against Me, || And I have pardoned all their iniquities || That they have sinned against Me, || And that they transgressed against Me.⁹ And it has been for a name of joy to Me, || For praise, and for beauty, to all nations of the earth, || Who hear of all the good that I am doing them, || And they have feared, || And they have trembled for all the good, || And for all the peace, that I am doing to it."

¹⁰ Thus said YHWH: "Again is heard in this place—of which you are saying, It [is] dry, without man and without beast, || In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, || That are desolated, without man, || And without inhabitant, and without beast—¹¹ A voice of joy and a voice of gladness, || Voice of bridegroom and voice of bride, || The voice of those saying, || Thank YHWH of Hosts, for YHWH [is] good, || For His kindness [is] for all time, || Who are bringing in thanksgiving to the house of YHWH, || For I return the captivity of the land, || As at the first," said YHWH.¹² Thus said YHWH of Hosts: "Again there is in this place—that is dry, || Without man and beast, || And in all its cities—a habitation of shepherds, || Causing the flock to lie down.¹³ In the cities of the hill-country, || In the cities of the low country, || And in the cities of the south, || And in the land of Benjamin, || And in the outskirts of Jerusalem, || And in the cities of Judah, || Again the flock passes by under the hands of the numberer," said YHWH.¹⁴ "Behold, days are coming," a declaration of YHWH, "And I have established the good word || That I spoke to the house of Israel, || And concerning the house of Judah.¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, || I cause a Shoot of righteousness to shoot up to David, || And He has done judgment and righteousness in the earth.¹⁶ In those days Judah is saved, || And Jerusalem dwells confidently, || And this [is] what she is called: YHWH [is] Our Righteousness."

¹⁷ For thus said YHWH: "A man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel [is] never cut off from David,¹⁸ And to the priests—the Levites, || A man is not cut off from before My face, || Causing a burnt-offering to ascend, || And perfuming a present, and making sacrifice—all the days."¹⁹ And there is a word of YHWH to Jeremiah, saying,²⁰ "Thus said YHWH: If you can break My covenant with the day, || And My covenant with the night, || So that they are not daily and nightly in their season,²¹ My covenant is also broken with My servant David, || So that he does not have a son reigning on his throne, || And with the Levites the priests, My ministers.²² As the host of the heavens is not numbered, || Nor the sand of the sea measured, || So I multiply the seed of My servant David, || And My ministers the Levites."²³ And there is a word of YHWH to Jeremiah, saying,²⁴ "Have you not considered what this people have spoken, saying, || The two families on which YHWH fixed, || He rejects them? And they despise My people, so that they are no longer a people before them!"²⁵ Thus said YHWH: "If My covenant [is] not with day and night, || [And if] I have not appointed the statutes of the heavens and earth—²⁶ I also reject the seed of Jacob, and My servant David, || From taking rulers from his seed || For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, || For I return their captivity, and have pitied them."