15. In those days and at that time,I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David;and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the earth.
16. In those days Judah will be saved,and Jerusalem will dwell safely.And this is the name by which she will be called:
17. For thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;
18. nor shall the Levitical priests lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually.
19. The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying:
20. Thus says the Lord: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night so that there should not be day and night in their season,
21. then also My covenant may be broken with David My servant, that he should not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.
22. As 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 that minister to Me.
23. Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying:
24. Have you not considered what this people have spoken, saying, “The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has cast them off”? Thus they have despised My people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25. Thus says the Lord: If My covenant for day and night does not stand, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
26. then I would cast away the seed of Jacob and David My servant, so that I would not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Yet I will restore their fortunes and have mercy on them.