1Moreover the word of Yehovah came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying, 2Thus says Yehovah who does it, Yehovah who forms it to establish it; Yehovah is his name: 3Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you do not know. 4For thus says Yehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword; 5while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city: 6Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth. 7And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. 8And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me. 9And this city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it. 10Thus says Yehovah: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, of which you say, It is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, 11the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yehovah of hosts, for Yehovah is good, for his lovingkindness endures forever; and of those who bring sacrifices of thanksgiving into the house of Yehovah. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yehovah. 12Thus says Yehovah of hosts: Yet again there shall be in this place, which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. 13In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks shall again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yehovah. 14Behold, the days are coming, says Yehovah, when I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah. 15In those days, and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 16In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name by which she shall be called: Yehovah our righteousness. 17For thus says Yehovah: David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; 18neither shall the priests the Levites lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 19And the word of Yehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, 20Thus says Yehovah: If you 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; 21then my covenant may also be broken with David my servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 22As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured; so I will multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me. 23And the word of Yehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, 24Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Yehovah chose, he has cast them off? thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25Thus says Yehovah: If my covenant of day and night does not stand, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26then I will 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.