12. “This is what the Lord of Hosts says: In this desolate place — without man or beast — and in all its cities there will once more be a grazing land where shepherds may rest flocks.
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,