33:23 The Lord spoke still further to Jeremiah. ¹  33:24 “You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying, ²  ‘The Lord has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah ³  that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation. ⁴  33:25 But I, the Lord, make the following promise: ⁵  I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth. 33:26 Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David’s descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, ⁶  I will restore them ⁷  and show mercy to them.”