Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
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Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
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Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
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Thus saith the LORD: If My covenant be not with day and night, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 33:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 74:16-17 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
- Jeremiah 31:35-36 Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says: “If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”
- Jeremiah 33:20 “Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;
- Psalms 104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
- Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
- Genesis 9:9-17 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth. I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.” God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain Here God opposes the constancy of his faithfulness to…
Here God opposes the constancy of his faithfulness to their perverse murmurings, of which he had complained; and he again adduces the similitude previously brought forward: “lf, then, I have not fixed my covenant, or if there is no covenant as to the day and the night, — if there are no laws as to heaven and earth, then I shall now cast away the seed of Jacob and the seed of David: but if my constancy is ever conspicuous as to the laws of nature, how is it that ye ascribe not to me my due honor? For I am the same God, who created the heaven and the earth, who fixed all the laws of nature which remain unchangeable, and who also have made a covenant with my Church. If my faithfulness as to the laws of nature changes not, wily should it change as to that sacred covenant which I have made with my chosen people?”
We now see the reason why God so often confirmed a thing in itself sufficiently clear, even because the contest with the obstinate hopelessness of the people was difficult. For they thought that they were rejected without any hope of deliverance, when God punished them only for a time for their wickedness, as they deemed their exile to be without a return.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant…
Jer 33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Ver. 25. If my covenant be not with day and night.] See on Jer 33:20. If there be not a constant intercourse of either.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus saith the Lord,.... In answer to the above…
Thus saith the Lord,.... In answer to the above calumny:
if my covenant be not with day and night; that is, if it should not stand; if it should be broken; or there should be no longer a succession of day and night:
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and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; concerning the course of the sun, moon, and stars, and the influence of the heavenly bodies; and concerning the fruits of the earth, the seasons of the year, seedtime and harvest, summer and winter; if these are not settled and fixed, and do not appear according to appointment and promise.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The ordinances of heaven and earth - i. e.,…
The ordinances of heaven and earth - i. e., the whole order of nature Nature is not more firmly established than God’s purposes in grace.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Jer 31:35-36; Gen 8:22; Psa 74:16-17). I who have…
(Jer 31:35-36; Gen 8:22; Psa 74:16-17). I who have established the laws of nature am the same God who has made a covenant with the Church.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. If my covenant be not with day and…
25. If my covenant be not with day and night — The repetition ofthis appeal to the established laws of nature shows the warmth and emphasis of the passage.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. stand] The absence of a verb in this…
25. stand] The absence of a verb in this clause to balance “have … appointed” in the next has led to Du.’s emendation, adopted also by Co., to read by a very slight change in the Hebrew for “If my covenant,” If I have not created. The alteration to the present text might have easily been made by a scribe who was influenced by “my covenant” of Jer_33:20.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 If I have not established ... and if I…
If I have not established ... and if I have not fixed ... then I will reject ... and not bring
This is a hypothetical situation that Yahweh never expects to be true. AT: "I have established ... and I have fixed ... so I will never reject ... and I will bring" (See: Hypothetical Situations)
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I will restore their fortunes
"I will cause things to go well for them again" or "I will cause them to live well again" See how similar words are translated in Jeremiah 29:14.
show mercy to
Translate as "have compassion on" is translated in (Jeremiah 30:18).
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earth
Jacob
David
Abraham
Isaac
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