Jeremiah 33:20

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“I, the LORD, make the following promise:‘I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant

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  • Gen 8:22 : 22 “While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
  • Ps 89:37 : 37 it will remain stable, like the moon, his throne will endure like the skies.”(Selah)
  • Ps 104:19-23 : 19 He made the moon to mark the months, and the sun sets according to a regular schedule. 20 You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around. 21 The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God. 22 When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep in their dens. 23 Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.
  • Isa 54:9-9 : 9 “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you. 10 Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the LORD, the one who has compassion on you.
  • Jer 33:25-26 : 25 But I, the LORD, make the following promise: I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth. 26 Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David’s descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, I will restore them and show mercy to them.”
  • Jer 31:35-37 : 35 The Lord Guarantees Israel’s Continuance The LORD has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 36 The LORD affirms,“The descendants of Israel will not cease forever to be a nation in my sight. That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lights were to cease to operate before me.” 37 The LORD says,“I will not reject all the descendants of Israel because of all that they have done. That could only happen if the heavens above could be measured or the foundations of the earth below could all be explored,” says the LORD.

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  • Jer 33:21-26
    6 verses
    89%

    21could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me.

    22I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.’”

    23The LORD’s message came to Jeremiah another time.

    24“You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying,‘The LORD has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation.

    25But I, the LORD, make the following promise: I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth.

    26Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David’s descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, I will restore them and show mercy to them.”

  • Jer 33:19
    82%

    19The LORD’s message came to Jeremiah another time.

  • Jer 31:35-37
    3 verses
    76%

    35The Lord Guarantees Israel’s Continuance The LORD has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

    36The LORD affirms,“The descendants of Israel will not cease forever to be a nation in my sight. That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lights were to cease to operate before me.”

    37The LORD says,“I will not reject all the descendants of Israel because of all that they have done. That could only happen if the heavens above could be measured or the foundations of the earth below could all be explored,” says the LORD.

  • Gen 8:22
    72%

    22“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

  • Job 17:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

  • Jer 31:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31“Indeed, a time is coming,” says the LORD,“when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.

    32It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the LORD.

  • Ps 89:34
    71%

    34I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.

  • Jer 34:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12The LORD’s message came to Jeremiah,

    13“The LORD God of Israel has a message for you.‘I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt where they had been slaves. It stipulated,

  • Lev 26:15
    70%

    15if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant–

  • Jer 34:18
    70%

    18I will punish those people who have violated their covenant with me. I will make them like the calf they cut in two and passed between its pieces. I will do so because they did not keep the terms of the covenant they made in my presence.

  • Job 26:10
    69%

    10He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

  • Ps 89:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations,

    31if they break my rules and do not keep my commandments,

  • Gen 1:14
    69%

    14God said,“Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

  • Ps 121:6
    69%

    6The sun will not harm you by day, or the moon by night.

  • Jer 11:1-3
    3 verses
    68%

    1The People Have Violated Their Covenant with God The LORD said to Jeremiah:

    2“Hear the terms of the covenant I made with Israel and pass them on to the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem.

    3Tell them that the LORD, the God of Israel, says,‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.

  • Mic 3:6
    68%

    6Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.

  • Jer 11:6
    68%

    6The LORD said to me,“Announce all the following words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem:‘Listen to the terms of my covenant with you and carry them out!

  • Amos 5:20
    68%

    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

  • Isa 59:21
    68%

    21“As for me, this is my promise to them,” says the LORD.“My Spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” says the LORD.

  • Job 3:6
    68%

    6That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

  • Zech 14:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6On that day there will be no light– the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.

    7It will happen in one day(a day known to the LORD); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light.

  • Ps 74:16
    67%

    16You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.

  • Gen 1:18
    67%

    18to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

  • Job 38:12
    67%

    12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

  • Jer 11:10
    67%

    10They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

  • Heb 8:9
    67%

    9“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

  • Jer 33:2
    67%

    2“I, the LORD, do these things. I, the LORD, form the plan to bring them about. I am known as the LORD. I say to you,

  • Ezek 32:8
    67%

    8I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Isa 13:10
    67%

    10Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.

  • Ezek 16:59-60
    2 verses
    67%

    59“‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.

    60Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.

  • Ps 55:20
    67%

    20He attacks his friends; he breaks his solemn promises to them.

  • Ps 139:11
    67%

    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

  • Jer 30:1
    66%

    1Introduction to the Book of Consolation The LORD spoke to Jeremiah.

  • Isa 30:26
    66%

    26The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the LORD binds up his people’s fractured bones and heals their severe wound.

  • Jer 17:24
    66%

    24The LORD says,‘You must make sure to obey me. You must not bring any loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day. You must set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not do any work on that day.