KJV King James Version
Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
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Jeremiah 33:25
Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
WEB World English Bible
Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
ASV American Standard Version
Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant is not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed—
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 33
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
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כֹּ֚הH3541 · kohthusאָמַ֣רH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאִם־H518 · imifלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotבְרִיתִ֖יH1285 · be.ritcovenantיוֹמָ֣םH3119 · yo.mamby dayוָלָ֑יְלָהH3915 · lay.lahnightחֻקּ֛וֹתH2708 · chuq.qahstatuteשָׁמַ֥יִםH8064 · sha.ma.yimheavenוָאָ֖רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetלֹא־H3808 · lonotשָֽׂמְתִּי׃H7760 · sumto set: make
Cross-references
Jeremiah 31:35-36Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:Psalm 74:16-17The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.Jeremiah 33:20Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;Psalm 104:19He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.Genesis 9:9-17And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
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