20. This is what the Lord says: If one could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that they wouldn’t come at their proper time,
21. only then could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the levitical priests who minister before me be broken; only then would David no longer have a descendant to rule on his throne.
22. And just as the stars in the sky can’t be numbered and the sand on the shore can’t be counted, so I will increase the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister before me.
23. Then the Lord’s word came to Jeremiah:
24. Aren’t you aware of what people are saying: "The Lord has rejected the two families that he had chosen"? They are insulting my people as if they no longer belong to me.
25. The Lord proclaims: I would no sooner break my covenant with day and night or the laws of heaven and earth