Jeremiah 23:5-8

Common English Bible

Promise of a righteous and just king

⁵ The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up a righteous descendant^[a] from David’s line, and he will rule as a wise king. He will do what is just and right in the land. ⁶ During his lifetime, Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. And his name will be The Lord Is Our Righteousness.^[b]

⁷ So the time is coming, declares the Lord, when no one will say, “As the Lord lives who brought up the Israelites from the land of Egypt.” ⁸ Instead, they will say, “As the Lord lives who brought up the descendants of the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he^[c] has banished them so that they can live in their own land.”