The Book of Comfort
Jeremiah 33
26 verses≈ 6 minBSB
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Where we are
- 1The callJosiah’s thirteenth year (about 627 BC): a prophet to the nations
- 2–6Return to MeBroken cisterns, faithless Judah, disaster from the north
- 7–10The temple gateThe temple sermon, a weeping prophet, the living God
- 11–20Covenant and complaintThe broken covenant, the potter, Jeremiah’s confessions
- 21–29Shepherds and prophetsKings judged, the Branch, seventy years, the yoke, the letter
- 30–33The Book of ComfortRestoration, the new covenant, a field bought in a siegeChapter 33
- 34–39The last days of JudahThe scroll burned, the cistern, Jerusalem falls (586 BC)
- 40–45After the fallGedaliah at Mizpah, the flight to Egypt, a word for Baruch
- 46–51The nationsEgypt to Babylon: the LORD is Judge of all the earth
- 52Jerusalem fallsThe record of 586 BC, and a king released
The Excellence of the Restored Nation
While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
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“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:
Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Jeremiah 33:3
For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword: The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.
So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.
This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying:
‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts,
for the LORD is good;
His loving devotion endures forever.’
For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.
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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain
God
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks. In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.
Question
Quick question
The LORD spoke of streets that people called a wasteland. Look at 33:10–11.
What sounds did the LORD promise would be heard again in Jerusalem’s empty streets?
The Covenant with David
Behold, the days are coming,
declares the LORD,
when I will fulfill the gracious promise
that I have spoken
to the house of Israel
and the house of Judah.
In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
God
For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, nor will the priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices.”
God
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.”
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.
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, 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.”
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Pray
Pray
LORD, I call to You now. Show me what I do not know, and teach me to trust the Branch of David, the LORD our righteousness. Amen.
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Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Jeremiah 33:3
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