19. Then the Lord told me:
20. I, the Lord, have an agreement with day and night, so they always come at the right time. You can't break the agreement I made with them,
21. and you can't break the agreements I have made with David's family and with the priests from the Levi tribe who serve at my altar. A descendant of David will always rule as king of Israel,
22. and there will be more descendants of David and of the priests from the Levi tribe than stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach.
23. The Lord also said:
24. You've heard foreigners insult my people by saying, “The Lord chose Israel and Judah, but now he has rejected them, and they are no longer a nation.”