⁷ I will establish my covenant^(A) as an everlasting covenant^(B) between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God^(C) and the God of your descendants after you.^{(D) 8} The whole land of Canaan,^(E) where you now reside as a foreigner,^(F) I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you;^(G) and I will be their God.^(H)”

²⁰ “This is what the Lord says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day^(A) and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time,^{(B) 21} then my covenant^(C) with David my servant—and my covenant with the Levites^(D) who are priests ministering before me—can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.^{(E) 22} I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless^(F) as the stars in the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.’”

²³ The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ²⁴ “Have you not noticed that these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two kingdoms^[a](G) he chose’? So they despise^(H) my people and no longer regard them as a nation.^{(I) 25} This is what the Lord says: ‘If I have not made my covenant with day and night^(J) and established the laws^(K) of heaven and earth,^{(L) 26} then I will reject^(M) the descendants of Jacob^(N) and David my servant and will not choose one of his sons to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes^[b](O) and have compassion^(P) on them.’”

Instructions for Christian Living

¹⁷ So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer^(A) live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.^{(B) 18} They are darkened in their understanding^(C) and separated from the life of God^(D) because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.^(E)