Jeremiah 33:24

'Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying: The two families which the LORD did choose, He hath cast them off? and they contemn My people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

23And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying:

25Thus saith the LORD: If My covenant be not with day and night, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

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Cross References

Nehemiah 4:2(3-34) And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said: 'What do these feeble Jews? will they restore at will? will they sacrifice? will they make an end this day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?'

Psalms 44:13(44-14) Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Psalms 83:4(83-5) They have said: 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.'

Psalms 94:14For the LORD will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance.

Jeremiah 30:17For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they have called thee an outcast: 'She is Zion, there is none that careth for her.'

Jeremiah 31:37Thus saith the LORD: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 33:18-26

Security of God's Covenants; The Covenant of Priesthood. ( b. c. 589.) 17 For thus saith the Lord ; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 19 And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying, 20 Thus saith the Lord ; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and… Read the whole commentary →

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