Jeremiah 33:25

What does Jeremiah 33:25 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 33:25 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant <FI>is<Fi> not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed--

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my covenant between day and night, and laws to heaven and earth:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,

Context

v.24Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

v.25This passage

v.26then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 74:16

    The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

  • Genesis 9:9

    And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

  • Genesis 8:22

    While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

  • Jeremiah 33:20

    Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

  • Psalms 104:19

    He appointed the moon for seasons: The sun knoweth his going down.

  • Jeremiah 31:35

    Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:

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