Jeremiah 33:23

23 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:

Jeremiah 33:23 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 33:23

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah
Upon the same subject, concerning the continuance of David's seed; with a refutation of a calumny uttered against the Lord about the rejection of them: saying;
as follows:

Jeremiah 33:23 In-Context

21 only then could my covenant with my servant David be broken, so that he would not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with my ministers the Levites.

22 Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will increase the offspring of my servant David, and the Levites who minister to me.

23 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:

24 Have you not observed how these people say, "The two families that the Lord chose have been rejected by him," and how they hold my people in such contempt that they no longer regard them as a nation?

25 Thus says the Lord: Only if I had not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth,