This is what the Lord says: ‘If My covenant for day and night does not continue, and I have not established the fixed patterns of heaven and earth,
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
- KJV 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;
- BSB This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
- NKJV “Thus says the Lord: ‘If My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
- NLT But this is what the Lord says: I would no more reject my people than I would change my laws that govern night and day, earth and sky.
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Quick answer
God stakes His covenant faithfulness on the fixed laws of day, night, heaven, and earth. His commitment is as certain as the created order.
Overview
Again the LORD appeals to the unchanging ordinances of creation as proof of His reliability. The fixed laws of nature, which He appointed, stand as a pledge that He will not abandon His people. This assures believers that the covenant promises fulfilled in Christ are as secure as the universe God sustains.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Jer 31:35–36Yahweh, 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:
- Ps 74:16–17The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
- Jer 33:20“Yahweh says: ‘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;
- Ps 104:19He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
- Gen 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
- Gen 9:9–17“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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