CLV(i)
17 For thus said Yahweh:`Not cut off to David is one sitting on the throne of the house of Israel,
18 And to the priests--the Levites, Not cut off from before Me is one, Causing a burnt-offering to ascend, And perfuming a present, and making sacrifice--all the days.'"
19 And there is a word of Yahweh unto Jeremiah, saying,
20 `Thus said Yahweh:If you do break My covenant of the day, And My covenant of the night, So that they are not daily and nightly in their season,
21 Also My covenant is broken with David My servant, So that he has not a son reigning on his throne, And with the Levites the priests, My ministers."
22 As the host of the heavens is not numbered, Nor the sand of the sea measured, So I multiply the seed of David My servant, And the Levites My ministers.'"
23 And there is a word of Yahweh unto Jeremiah, saying:"
24 `Have you not considered what this people have spoken, saying:The two families on which Yahweh fixed, He does reject them, And my people they despise--So that they are no more a people before them!"
25 Thus said Yahweh:If My covenant [is] not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed--"
26 Also the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, For I turn back [to] their captivity, and have pitied them.'"