Jeremiah 33:24

²² As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

²³ Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

²⁵ This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

²⁶ then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
KJV: Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
WEB: “Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has the LORD cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”
ASV: Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
DARBY: Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
BLB: “Have you not considered what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families that YHWH has chosen, and He has rejected them? Thus they have despised My people from being anymore a nation before them.

ÅB: Har du ikke gitt akt på hva dette folk har talt og sagt: De to slekter som Herren hadde utvalgt, dem forkastet han? Og mitt folk forakter de, så det ikke mere er noe folk i deres øyne.
OTB: “Har du ikke lagt merke til hva disse menneskene sier, ‘Herren har forkastet de to familiene Han valgte’? Så forakter de Mitt folk og regner dem ikke lenger som en nasjon.
B1930: Har du ikke gitt akt på hvad dette folk har talt og sagt: De to slekter som Herren hadde utvalgt, dem forkastet han? Og mitt folk forakter de, så det ikke mere er noget folk i deres øine.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Nehemiah 4:2–4
before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
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Psalms 83:4
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
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Psalms 44:13–14
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
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Jeremiah 30:17
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
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Esther 3:6–8
And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
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Ezekiel 26:2
“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’
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Jeremiah 33:21–22
then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.
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Psalms 123:3–4
Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
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