Jeremiah 33 · Verse 25

Jeremiah 33:25

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;
Jeremiah 33:25, King James Version

Jeremiah 33:25 in other translations

BSBThis 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,
WEBThe LORD says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
ASVThus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
YLTThus said Jehovah: If My covenant is not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed--
DARBYThus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,
BBEThe Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,
WebsterThus saith the LORD; If my covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

What does Jeremiah 33:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. (Jr 31:35, 36; Ge 8:22; Psa 74:16, 17). I who have established the laws of nature am the same God who has made a covenant with the Church.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 33:14-26

To crown the blessings God has in store, here is a promise of the Messiah. He imparts righteousness to his church, for he is made of God to us righteousness; and believers are made the righteousness of God in him. Christ is our Lord God, our righteousness, our sanctification, and our redemption. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. But in this world prosperity and adversity succeed each other, as light and…

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Jeremiah 33:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כֹּ֚הkohthusH3541
אָמַ֣ר'a.Marhe saysH559
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אִם\־'im-ifH518
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
בְרִיתִ֖יve.ri.Ticovenant of myH1285
יוֹמָ֣םyo.MamdaytimeH3119
וָלָ֑יְלָהva.La.ye.lahand nightH3915
חֻקּ֛וֹתchu.Kot[the] fixed order<s> ofH2708
שָׁמַ֥יִםsha.Ma.yimheavenH8064
וָאָ֖רֶץva.'A.retzand earthH776
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
שָֽׂמְתִּי\׃Sa.me.tiI have ordainedH7760

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 33:25

  • Psalms 74:16-17

    The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

  • Jeremiah 31:35-36

    Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

  • Jeremiah 33:20

    Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

  • Psalms 104:19

    He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

  • Genesis 8:22

    While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

  • Genesis 9:9-17

    And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If my.
20; Ge 8:22; 9:9-17
and if.
31:35,36; Ps 74:16,17; 104:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Jeremiah 33:24

    Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

  • Jeremiah 33:25

    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;

  • Jeremiah 33:26

    Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

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Jeremiah 33:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Así ha dicho Jehová: Si no permaneciere mi concierto con el día y la noche, si yo no he puesto las leyes del cielo y la tierra,
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ainsi dit l’ Éternel: Si mon alliance touchant le jour et la nuit ne demeure pas, si je n’ai pas établi les ordonnances des cieux et de la terre,
German
Elberfelder 1871		So spricht Jehova: Wenn nicht mein Bund betreffs des Tages und der Nacht besteht, wenn ich nicht die Ordnungen des Himmels und der Erde festgesetzt habe,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Hæc dicit Dominus: Si pactum meum inter diem et noctem, et leges cælo et terræ non posui,