23. Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24. Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, as if they should be no more a nation before them.
25. 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;
26. Then will I cast away the descendants of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.