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Jeremiah 33:20

"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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   God;   Seasons;   Thompson Chain Reference - Covenant;   Covenants and Vows;   Day;   Everlasting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Night;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - David;   Testimony;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Covenant;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   David;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   Messiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Covenant;   Messiah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jeremiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jeremiah (2);   Priests and Levites;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Covenant;   Judaism;  

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,
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,
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 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 For I, the Lord , promise: "David will never lack a successor to occupy the throne over the nation of Israel. 18 Nor will the Levitical priests ever lack someone to stand before me and continually offer up burnt offerings, sacrifice cereal offerings, and offer the other sacrifices."'" 19 The Lord spoke further to Jeremiah. 20 "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 21 could 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. 22 I 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.'" 23 The Lord spoke still further to Jeremiah. 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. 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."

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
Noah built an altar to the Lord . He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.
Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord , the eternal God.
Genesis 32:28
"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."
Genesis 33:7
Then Leah came forward with her children and they bowed down. Finally Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed down.
Genesis 33:8
Esau then asked, "What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?" Jacob replied, "To find favor in your sight, my lord."
Genesis 35:7
He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing 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 dayJeremiah 31:36.


 
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