1Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

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Jeremiah 38:28, Jeremiah 32:2, Jeremiah 32:3, Jeremiah 37:21, Jeremiah 38:28

2"Thus says the Lord who does it, the Lord who forms it to establish it; the Lord is his name:

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Isaiah 37:26, Exodus 15:3, Exodus 6:3, Isaiah 37:26, Exodus 15:3

3'Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you do not know.'

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Jeremiah 29:12, Jeremiah 29:12, Isaiah 65:24, Isaiah 65:24, Ephesians 3:20

4For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword;

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Jeremiah 32:24, Ezekiel 4:2, Habakkuk 1:10, Jeremiah 32:24, Ezekiel 4:2

5while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, 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 hidden my face from this city:

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Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 8:17, Jeremiah 21:10, Jeremiah 32:5, Jeremiah 21:4

6'Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

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John 10:10, John 10:10, Isaiah 30:26, Isaiah 30:26, Titus 3:5

7I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

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Amos 9:14, Amos 9:15, Jeremiah 30:3, Isaiah 1:26, Amos 9:14

8I will 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.

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Micah 7:18, Micah 7:19, Zechariah 13:1, Micah 7:18, Micah 7:19

9This city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.'

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Isaiah 60:5, Isaiah 60:5, Psalms 126:2, Psalms 126:3, Psalms 126:2

10"Thus says the Lord: 'Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, "It is waste, without man and without animal," even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,

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Jeremiah 32:43, Jeremiah 32:43, Jeremiah 32:36, Ezekiel 37:11, Jeremiah 32:36

11the 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 loving kindness endures forever; who bring 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.

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1 Chronicles 16:34, 1 Chronicles 16:34, Psalms 107:22, Psalms 107:22, Psalms 107:1

12Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

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Isaiah 65:10, Isaiah 65:10, Jeremiah 51:62, Ezekiel 34:12, Ezekiel 34:15

13In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them,' says the Lord.

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Leviticus 27:32, Leviticus 27:32, Jeremiah 17:26, Luke 15:4, Jeremiah 17:26

14'Behold, the days come,' says the Lord, 'that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.

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Haggai 2:6, Haggai 2:9, Haggai 2:6, Haggai 2:9, Jeremiah 23:5

15In 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.

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Isaiah 11:1, Isaiah 11:5, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Isaiah 4:2

16In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name by which she shall be called: "The Lord our righteousness."

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Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 23:6, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Isaiah 45:17, 1 Corinthians 1:30

17For thus says the Lord: "David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

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1 Kings 2:4, 1 Kings 2:4, Psalms 89:29, Psalms 89:37, Luke 1:32

18neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually."'"

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Isaiah 56:7, Isaiah 56:7, 1 Peter 2:9, Romans 15:16, Ezekiel 43:19

19The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

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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;

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Psalms 104:19, Psalms 104:23, Isaiah 54:9, Isaiah 54:10, Genesis 8:22

21then 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 priests, my ministers.

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Psalms 89:34, Psalms 89:34, 2 Chronicles 7:18, 2 Chronicles 7:18, 2 Samuel 23:5

22As the army 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.'"

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Genesis 22:17, Genesis 22:17, Genesis 15:5, Hebrews 11:12, Genesis 15:5

23The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

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24"Do not consider what this people has spoken, saying, 'The two families which the Lord chose, he has cast them off?' Thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

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Psalms 83:4, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:14, Nehemiah 4:2, Nehemiah 4:4

25Thus says the Lord: 'If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

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Psalms 74:16, Psalms 74:17, Psalms 74:16, Psalms 74:17, Jeremiah 31:35

26then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.'"

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Jeremiah 31:37, Jeremiah 31:37, Isaiah 14:1, Isaiah 14:1, Hosea 2:23