Moreover the word of the Lord came to Yirmeyahu the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying,

Thus says the Lord the maker of it, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name;

Call to me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowst not.

For thus says the Lord, the God of Yisra᾽el, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Yehuda, which are thrown down to withstand the siege works and the sword;

they come to fight with the Kasdim, and thereby to fill them with the dead bodies of those men, whom I shall stay in my anger and in my fury, those on account of whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

Behold, I will bring it healing and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

And I will cause the captivity of Yehuda and the captivity of Yisra᾽el to return, and will build them, as at the first.

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, in which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, in which they have sinned against me, and in which they have transgressed against me.

And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure to it:

Thus says the Lord; Again there shall be heard in this place, (which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, namely, in the cities of Yehuda, and in the desolate streets of Yerushalayim, that are without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,)

the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the Lord of hosts: for the Lord is good; for his loyal love endures for ever: when they shall bring the sacrifice 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.

Thus says the Lord of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all its cities, shall be a habitation of shepherds who make their flocks lie down.

In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the Negev, and in the land of Binyamin, and in the places about Yerushalayim, and in the cities of Yehuda, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that counts them, says the Lord.

Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Yisra᾽el and to the house of Yehuda.

In those days, and at that time, will I cause an offshoot of righteousness to grow up for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

In those days shall Yehuda be saved, and Yerushalayim shall dwell safely: and this is the name whereby she shall be called, namely, The Lord is our righteousness.

For thus says the Lord; David shall never lack a man sitting upon the throne of the house of Yisra᾽el;

Neither shall the priests the Levites lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

And the word of the Lord came to Yirmeyahu, saying,

Thus says the Lord; If you can break My covenant with the day, and My covenant with the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

then also My covenant may be broken with David My servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, My ministers.

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David My servant, and the Levites that minister to me.

Moreover the word of the Lord came to Yirmeyahu, saying,

Hast thou not observed what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord has chosen, he has cast them off? thus they have despised My people, so that they should no more be a nation in their sight.

Thus says the Lord; If I have not appointed my covenant with day and night, the ordinances of heaven and earth;

then will I cast away the seed of Ya῾aqov and David my servant, and not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Avraham, Yiżĥaq, and Ya῾aqov. No, for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.