Jeremiah 33:20

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The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,

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  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
  • Ps 89:37 : 37 It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)
  • Ps 104:19-23 : 19 He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down. 20 When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places. 21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God. 22 The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest. 23 Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.
  • Isa 54:9-9 : 9 For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you. 10 For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.
  • Jer 33:25-26 : 25 The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me, 26 Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.
  • Jer 31:35-37 : 35 These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name. 36 If the order of these things before me is ever broken, says the Lord, then will the seed of Israel come to an end as a nation before me for ever. 37 This is what the Lord has said: If the heavens on high may be measured, and the bases of the earth searched out, then I will give up the seed of Israel, because of all they have done, says the Lord.

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  • Jer 33:21-26
    6 verses
    89%

    21 Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants.

    22 As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.

    23 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

    24 Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.

    25 The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,

    26 Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.

  • 19 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

  • Jer 31:35-37
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    35 These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

    36 If the order of these things before me is ever broken, says the Lord, then will the seed of Israel come to an end as a nation before me for ever.

    37 This is what the Lord has said: If the heavens on high may be measured, and the bases of the earth searched out, then I will give up the seed of Israel, because of all they have done, says the Lord.

  • 22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

  • Job 17:11-12
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    72%

    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

    12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • Jer 31:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:

    32 Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

  • 34 I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.

  • Jer 34:12-13
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    70%

    12 For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

    13 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,

  • 15 And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;

  • 18 And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,

  • 10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • Ps 89:30-31
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    30 If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

    31 If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

  • 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

  • 6 You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night.

  • Jer 11:1-3
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    68%

    1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

    2 Give ear to the words of this agreement, and say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem,

    3 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,

  • 6 For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

  • 6 And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.

  • 20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • 21 And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.

  • 6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Zech 14:6-7
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    6 And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;

    7 And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.

  • 16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

  • 18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

  • 12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

  • 10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

  • 9 Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

  • 2 These are the words of the Lord, who is doing it, the Lord who is forming it, to make it certain; the Lord is his name;

  • 8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

  • 10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

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    59 For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.

    60 But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.

  • 20 He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

  • 11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

  • 1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

  • 26 And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.

  • 24 And it will be, that if with all care you give ear to me, says the Lord, and take no weight through the doorways of this town on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work in it;