13. The flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them in the cities of the hill country, the cities of the Judean foothills, the cities of the Negev, the land of Benjamin — the cities surrounding Jerusalem and Judah’s cities, says the Lord.
14. “Look, the days are coming” —this is the Lord’s declaration —“when I will fulfill the good promisesthat I have spokenconcerning the house of Israeland the house of Judah.
15. In those days and at that timeI will cause a Righteous Branch to sprout up for David,and He will administer justiceand righteousness in the land.
16. In those days Judah will be saved,and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is what she will be named:Yahweh Our Righteousness.
17. “For this is what the Lord says: David will never fail to have a man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel.
18. The Levitical priests will never fail to have a man always before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices.”
19. The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
20. “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,
21. then also My covenant with My servant David may be broken so that he will not have a son reigning on his throne, and the Levitical priests will not be My ministers.
22. The hosts of heaven cannot be counted; the sand of the sea cannot be measured. So, too, I will make the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister to Me innumerable.”
23. The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
24. “Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families He had chosen.’ My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them.
25. This is what the Lord says: If I do not keep My covenant with the day and with the night and fail to establish the fixed order of heaven and earth,