God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth,
Jeremiah 33:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘This is what the Lord says: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night cease to come at their regular time, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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, American Standard Version (1901) Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season; Common English Bible This is what the LORD says: If one could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that they wouldn’t come at their proper time, Catholic Public Domain Version "Thus says the Lord: If my covenant with the day is able to be nullified, or my covenant with the night, such that there would be no day and no night in their time, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thus saith the Lord: If my covenant with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season: |
God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth,
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.’
‘For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will remain before me’ – this is the Lord’s declaration – ‘so your offspring and your name will remain.
Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break my covenant with them, since I am the Lord their God.