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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 33:20 - Amplified Bible©
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 33:20 |
Amplified Bible© |
Thus says the Lord: If you can break My covenant with the day, and My covenant with the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season, |
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King James |
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; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| covenant of the day--that is, covenant with the day: answering to "covenant with David" (Jer 33:21, also Jer 33:25, "with day"; compare Jer 31:35-36; Lev 26:42; Psa 89:34, Psa 89:37). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| My covenant - The same with the ordinances mentioned, Jer 31:35. God's law established in the course of natural causes, by virtue of which the day and night, orderly succeed one another. The succession of the gospel ministry in the church of God to abide for ever, shall be as certain as the succession of darkness and light. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| If ye can break my covenant of the day - See the note on Jer 31:36. |
37 It shall be established forever as the moon, the faithful witness in the heavens. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Cross reference(s) provided by the translation: [Rev. 1:5; 3:14.]
34 My covenant will I not break or profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.
42 Then will I [earnestly] remember My covenant with Jacob, My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham, and [earnestly] remember the land. Cross reference(s) provided by the translation: [Ps. 106:44-46.]
35 Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day and the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, Who stirs up the sea's roaring billows or stills the waves when they roar--the Lord of hosts is His name:
36 If these ordinances [of fixed order] depart from before Me, says the Lord, then the posterity of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me throughout the ages.
25 Thus says the Lord: If My covenant with day and night does not stand, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth [the whole order of nature],
21 Then can also My covenant be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne, and [My league be broken also] with the Levitical priests, My ministers.
35 Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day and the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, Who stirs up the sea's roaring billows or stills the waves when they roar--the Lord of hosts is His name:
36 If these ordinances [of fixed order] depart from before Me, says the Lord, then the posterity of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me throughout the ages.