Jeremiah · Bible in Basic English
Jeremiah 33 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,
1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still locked up in the court of the guard, saying,
2 These are the words of the Lord, who is doing it, the Lord who is forming it, to make it certain; the Lord is his name;
2 “Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his name, says:
3 Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.
3 ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
4 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ... ;
4 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword:
5 ... and to make them full of the dead bodies of men whom I have put to death in my wrath and in my passion, and because of whose evil-doing I have kept my face covered from this town.
5 ‘While men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city,
6 See, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well; I will let them see peace and good faith in full measure.
6 behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
7 And I will let the fate of Judah and of Israel be changed, building them up as at first.
7 I will restore the fortunes of Judah and Israel, and will build them as at the first.
8 And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.
8 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me.
9 And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.
9 This city will be to me for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I provide to it.’”
10 This is what the Lord has said: There will again be sounding in this place, of which you say, It is a waste, without man and without beast; even in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem which are waste and unpeopled, without man and without beast,
10 Yahweh says: “Yet again there will be heard in this place, about which you say, ‘It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,’
11 Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.
11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.
12 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.
12 Yahweh of Armies says: “Yet again there will be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the towns of the hill-country, in the towns of the lowland, and in the towns of the South and in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, the flocks will again go under the hand of him who is numbering them, says the Lord.
13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of him who counts them,” says Yahweh.
14◆ See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give effect to the good word which I have said about the people of Israel and the people of Judah.
14 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
15◆ In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.
15 “In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
16◆ In those days, Judah will have salvation and Jerusalem will be safe: and this is the name which will be given to her: The Lord is our righteousness.
16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”
17◆ For the Lord has said, David will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel;
17 For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.
18◆ And the priests and the Levites will never be without a man to come before me, offering burned offerings and perfumes and meal offerings and offerings of beasts at all times.
18 The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”
20◆ 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,
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,
21◆ Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants.
21 then my covenant could also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levitical priests, my ministers.
22◆ As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.
22 As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’”
24◆ Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.
24 “Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”
25◆ The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,
25 Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
26◆ Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.
26 then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”
Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 32:2–3; Jeremiah 37:21; Jeremiah 38:28; Jeremiah 32:8; 2 Timothy 2:9
- 2 Exodus 6:3; Isaiah 37:26; Exodus 15:3; Exodus 3:14–15; Isaiah 43:21
- 3 Jeremiah 29:12; Isaiah 65:24; Ephesians 3:20; Isaiah 48:6; Psalm 91:15
- 4 Jeremiah 32:24; Ezekiel 4:2; Habakkuk 1:10; Ezekiel 21:22; Ezekiel 26:8
- 5 Isaiah 8:17; Jeremiah 21:4–7; Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 32:5; Micah 3:4
- 6 John 10:10; Isaiah 30:26; Titus 3:5–6; Psalm 67:2; Isaiah 58:8
- 7 Amos 9:14–15; Jeremiah 30:3; Isaiah 1:26; Jeremiah 32:44; Jeremiah 29:14
- 8 Zechariah 13:1; Micah 7:18–19; Ezekiel 36:25; Revelation 1:5; Jeremiah 31:34
- 9 Psalm 126:2–3; Isaiah 60:5; Zephaniah 3:17–20; Isaiah 62:7; Nehemiah 6:16
- 10 Jeremiah 32:43; Jeremiah 32:36; Ezekiel 37:11
- 11 1 Chronicles 16:34; Psalm 106:1; Psalm 107:22; Psalm 107:1; Hebrews 13:15
- 12 Isaiah 65:10; Jeremiah 51:62; Jeremiah 31:24; Jeremiah 36:29; Ezekiel 34:12–15
- 13 Leviticus 27:32; Luke 15:4; Jeremiah 17:26; John 10:3–4
- 14 Haggai 2:6–9; Jeremiah 23:5; 1 Chronicles 17:13–14; 2 Corinthians 1:20; Genesis 49:10
- 15 Jeremiah 23:5–6; Isaiah 11:1–5; Isaiah 4:2; Zechariah 3:8; Isaiah 53:2
- 16 Jeremiah 23:6; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Isaiah 45:17; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 3:9
- 17 1 Kings 2:4; Psalm 89:29–37; Luke 1:32–33; 1 Chronicles 17:11–14; Isaiah 9:7
- 18 Isaiah 56:7; Romans 15:16; Deuteronomy 18:1; 1 Peter 2:5; Revelation 1:6
- 20 Genesis 8:22; Isaiah 54:9–10; Psalm 89:37; Psalm 104:19–23; Jeremiah 31:35–37
- 21 Psalm 89:34; 2 Chronicles 7:18; 2 Chronicles 21:7; 2 Samuel 23:5; Matthew 24:35
- 22 Genesis 22:17; Genesis 15:5; Hebrews 11:12; Ezekiel 37:24–27; Isaiah 66:21
- 24 Nehemiah 4:2–4; Psalm 83:4; Psalm 44:13–14; Jeremiah 30:17; Esther 3:6–8
- 25 Psalm 74:16–17; Jeremiah 31:35–36; Jeremiah 33:20; Psalm 104:19; Genesis 8:22
- 26 Jeremiah 31:37; Isaiah 14:1; Hosea 2:23; Jeremiah 31:20; Hosea 1:7
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
Why does my Bible say something different?
- Jeremiah: a shorter book in a different order
The Greek Septuagint of Jeremiah is markedly shorter than the Hebrew text and arranges the book differently: the oracles against the nations come in the middle, after 25:13, not at the end. Hebrew fragments from Qumran show that a shorter Hebrew form of Jeremiah really existed. Many scholars think Jeremiah circulated in two editions.