²¹ that ^(A)your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like ^(B)the days of the heavens above the earth.

³² He will be great, ^(A)and will be called the Son of the Highest; and ^(B)the Lord God will give Him the ^(C)throne of His ^(D)father David. ^33 (E)And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”

⁴⁴ And in the days of these kings ^(A)the God of heaven will set up a kingdom ^(B)which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; ^(C)it shall ^[a]break in pieces and ^[b]consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

^24 (A)“David My servant shall be king over them, and ^(B)they shall all have one shepherd; ^(C)they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them. ^25 (D)Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, ^(E)forever; and ^(F)My servant David shall be their prince forever.

¹⁷ “For thus says the Lord: ‘David shall never ^(A)lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; ¹⁸ nor shall the ^(B)priests, the Levites, lack a man to ^(C)offer burnt offerings before Me, to ^[a]kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually.’ ”

The Permanence of God’s Covenant

¹⁹ And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, ²⁰ “Thus says the Lord: ‘If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, ²¹ then ^(D)My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. ²² As ^(E)the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I ^(F)multiply the descendants of David My servant and the ^(G)Levites who minister to Me.’ ”

²³ Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, ²⁴ “Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have ^(H)despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.

²⁵ “Thus says the Lord: ‘If ^(I)My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not ^(J)appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, ^26 (K)then I will ^(L)cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.’ ”