#ScriptureReflection - Jeremiah 31:35-40 (5.19.21)

Certainty of God’s Promise

³⁵     Thus says the Lord,
Who gives the sun to light the day,
    moon and stars to light the night;
Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar,
    whose name is Lord of hosts:

³⁶ If ever this fixed order gives way
    before me—oracle of the Lord—

Then would the offspring of Israel cease
    as a people before me forever.
³⁷     Thus says the Lord:
If the heavens on high could be measured,
    or the foundations below the earth be explored,
Then would I reject all the offspring of Israel
    because of all they have done—oracle of the Lord.

Jerusalem Rebuilt. ³⁸ See, days are coming—oracle of the Lord—when the city shall be rebuilt as the Lord’s, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. ³⁹ A measuring line shall be stretched from there straight to the hill Gareb and then turn to Goah. ⁴⁰ The whole valley of corpses and ashes, all the terraced slopes toward the Wadi Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse Gate at the east, shall be holy to the Lord.

Never again shall the city be uprooted or demolished.