11. the song of joy, the song of gladness, the song of the bridegroom, the song of the bride, the song of those bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good; God’s love endures forever.” For I will restore the fortunes of this land as they were in the beginning, says the Lord.
12. Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place, now a waste, without people or animals, and in all its cities there shall again be sheepfolds for the shepherds to rest their flocks.
13. In the cities of the hill country, of the Shephelah and the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin and the neighborhood of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the Lord.
14. The days are coming—oracle of the Lord—when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
15. In those days, at that time, I will make a just shoot spring up for David; he shall do what is right and just in the land.
16. In those days Judah shall be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; this is the name they shall call her: “The Lord our justice.”
17. For thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a successor on the throne of the house of Israel,
18. nor shall the priests of Levi ever be lacking before me, to sacrifice burnt offerings, to burn cereal offerings, and to make sacrifices.
19. This word of the Lord also came to Jeremiah:
20. Thus says the Lord: If you can break my covenant with day and my covenant with night so that day and night no longer appear in their proper time,