18. And there will always be Levitical priests to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings and sacrifices to me.”
19. Then this message came to Jeremiah from the lord:
20. “This is what the lord says: If you can break my covenant with the day and the night so that one does not follow the other,
21. only then will my covenant with my servant David be broken. Only then will he no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne. The same is true for my covenant with the Levitical priests who minister before me.
22. And as the stars of the sky cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister before me.”
23. The lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,