Jeremiah 33:20

Easy-to-Read Version

The Lord says, "I have an agreement with day and night. I agreed that they would continue forever. You cannot change that agreement. Day and night will always come at the right time. If you could change that agreement,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“This is what the Lord says: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night cease to come at their regular time,

Hebrew Names Version
Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

King James Version
Thus 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;

English Standard Version
"Thus says the Lord : If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time,

New American Standard Bible
"This is what the LORD says: 'If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night do not occur at their proper time,

New Century Version
"This is what the Lord says: I have an agreement with day and night that they will always come at the right times. If you could change that agreement,

Amplified Bible
"Thus says the LORD, 'If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night do not take place at their appointed times,

World English Bible
Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus sayth the Lord, If you can breake my couenant of the day, and my couenant of the night, that there should not be day, and night in their season,

Legacy Standard Bible
"Thus says Yahweh, ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

Berean Standard Bible
"This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

Contemporary English Version
I, the Lord , have an agreement with day and night, so they always come at the right time. You can't break the agreement I made with them,

Complete Jewish Bible
"Here is what Adonai says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that daytime and nighttime no longer come when they are supposed to,

Darby Translation
Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant [in respect] of the day, and my covenant [in respect] of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,

George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD: if they can break my ordinances of the day, and my ordinances of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their appointed time;

Good News Translation
"I have made a covenant with the day and with the night, so that they always come at their proper times; and that covenant can never be broken.

Lexham English Bible
"Thus says Yahweh: ‘If you could break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their time,

Literal Translation
So says Jehovah, If you can break My covenant of the day, and My covenant of the night, and there should not be day and night in their time,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus saieth the LORDE: Maye the couenaunt which I haue made with daye and night, be broken, that there shulde not be daye and night in due season?

American Standard Version
Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

Bible in Basic English
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,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus saith the LORD: If ye can break My covenant with the day, and My covenant with the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season;

King James Version (1611)
Thus saith the Lord; If you can breake my couenant of the day, and my couenant of the night, and that there should not be day, and night in their season:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus saith the Lorde: May the couenaunt whiche I haue made with day and night be broken, that there shoulde not be day and night in due season?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there was another man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Urias the son of Samaeas of Cariathiarim; and he prophesied concerning this land according to all the words of Jeremias.

English Revised Version
Thus saith the LORD: If ye 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;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, The Lord seith these thingis, If my couenaunt with the dai and my couenaunt with the niyt mai be maad voide, that the dai and the niyt be not in his tyme;

Update Bible Version
Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the LORD; If ye 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;

New English Translation
"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

New King James Version
"Thus says the LORD: "If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season,

New Living Translation
"This is what the Lord says: If you can break my covenant with the day and the night so that one does not follow the other,

New Life Bible
"This is what the Lord says: ‘If you can break My agreement with the day and night, so that day and night will not come at their set time,

New Revised Standard
Thus says the Lord : If any of you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their appointed time,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, saith Yahweh, If ye can break, My covenant of the day, and My covenant of the night, That there be not day and night in their season,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season:

Revised Standard Version
"Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time,

Young's Literal Translation
`Thus said Jehovah: If ye do break My covenant of the day, And My covenant of the night, So that they are not daily and nightly in their season,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Thus says the LORD, 'If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ The Lord says, "Someone from David's family will always sit on the throne and rule the family of Israel. ¹⁸ And there will always be priests from the family of Levi. They will always stand before me and offer burnt offerings and sacrifice grain offerings and give sacrifices to me." ¹⁹ This message from the Lord came to Jeremiah. ²⁰ The Lord says, "I have an agreement with day and night. I agreed that they would continue forever. You cannot change that agreement. Day and night will always come at the right time. If you could change that agreement, ²¹ then you could change my agreement with David and Levi. Then descendants from David would not be the kings, and the family of Levi would not be priests. ²² But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the tribe of Levi. They will be as many as the stars in the sky—no one can count all the stars. And they will be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore—no one can count the grains of sand." ²³ Jeremiah received this message from the Lord : ²⁴ "Jeremiah, have you heard what the people are saying? They are saying, ‘The Lord turned away from the two families of Israel and Judah. He chose those people, but now he does not even accept them as a nation.'" ²⁵ The Lord says, "If my agreement with day and night does not continue, and if I had not made the laws for the sky and earth, maybe I would leave those people. ²⁶ Then maybe I would turn away from Jacob's descendants. And then maybe I would not let David's descendants rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But David is my servant, and I will be kind to those people. I will again cause good things to happen to them."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 33:25, Jeremiah 33:26, Jeremiah 31:35, Jeremiah 31:36, Genesis 8:22, Psalms 89:37, Psalms 104:19-23, Isaiah 54:9, Isaiah 54:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:5 - and Genesis 1:14 - Let there Genesis 9:9 - General Genesis 15:18 - made Leviticus 26:44 - break Judges 2:1 - I will never 1 Kings 15:4 - for David's 2 Chronicles 7:18 - shall not 2 Chronicles 10:16 - David 2 Chronicles 21:7 - because Psalms 74:20 - Have Psalms 89:28 - covenant Psalms 89:33 - Nevertheless Psalms 89:34 - covenant Psalms 89:36 - and Psalms 100:5 - and his truth Psalms 111:9 - he hath Psalms 132:11 - sworn Psalms 148:3 - sun Ecclesiastes 1:5 - sun Isaiah 55:3 - the sure Ezekiel 16:60 - I will remember Amos 9:11 - raise Romans 9:4 - covenants Ephesians 2:12 - the covenants Hebrews 6:17 - the immutability

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to honor the Lord . Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals and burned them on the altar as a gift to God.

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tents. He went to live near the big trees of Mamre. This was near the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to honor the Lord .

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a special tree at Beersheba and prayed to the Lord , the God who lives forever.

Genesis 32:28
Then the man said, "Your name will not be Jacob. Your name will now be Israel. I give you this name because you have fought with God and with men, and you have won."

Genesis 33:7
Then Leah and the children with her went to Esau and bowed down. And then Rachel and Joseph went to him and bowed down.

Genesis 33:8
Esau said, "Who were all those people I saw while I was coming here? And what were all those animals for?" Jacob answered, "These are my gifts to you so that you might accept me."

Genesis 35:7
Jacob built an altar there. He named the place "El Bethel." Jacob chose this name because that is the place where God first appeared to him when he was running from his brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord, if you can break my covenant of the day,

and my covenant of the night,.... The same with the ordinances of the sun, moon, and stars, Jeremiah 31:35; the original constitution and law of nature, settled from the beginning of the world, and observed ever since, in the constant revolution of day and night; and which was formed into a covenant and promise to Noah, after the deluge, that day and night should not cease, as long as the earth remained, Genesis 8:22; and which has never been, nor can be, broken and made void: so

that there should not be day and night in their season; or turn; continually succeeding each other: this, as it would not be attempted, so could never be effected by any mortals, if it were.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 33:20. If ye can break my covenant of the day — Jeremiah 31:36.