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.
Study Note
Study Note
God challenges Jeremiah to consider whether the people's claim — that God has 'rejected the two families' (Judah and Israel) — represents a true reading of covenantal history. The verse is embedded in the 'Book of Consolation' (Jeremiah 30–33), where promises of restoration systematically answer the despair of exile. The response (verses 25–26) grounds national renewal in the constancy of creation — if day and night can be counted on, so can God's covenant with David and the Levitical priests — anticipating New Testament arguments about divine faithfulness in Romans 11.
Other Translations
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
`Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise--So that they are no more a people before them!
Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.
Cross References
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And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all …
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may …
For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.