Jeremiah 31:36
Good News Translation
He promises that as long as the natural order lasts, so long will Israel be a nation.

New Revised Standard Version
If this fixed order were ever to cease from my presence, says the LORD, then also the offspring of Israel would cease to be a nation before me forever.

Contemporary English Version
I will never forget to give those commands, and I will never let Israel stop being a nation. I, the LORD, have spoken.

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me for ever.

those.

Jeremiah 33:20-26 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: . . .

Psalm 72:5,17 And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations. . . .

Psalm 89:36,37 His seed shall endure for ever. . . .

Psalm 102:28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever.

Psalm 119:89 For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven.

Psalm 148:6 He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath made a decree, and it shall not pass away.

Isaiah 54:9,10 This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to whom I swore, that I would no more bring in the waters of Noe upon the earth: so have I sworn not to be angry with thee, and not to rebuke thee. . . .

cease.

Jeremiah 46:28 And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I am with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast thee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in judgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.

Deuteronomy 32:26 I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.

Amos 9:8,9 Are not you as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord? did not I bring up Israel, out of the land of Egypt: and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene? . . .

Context
Mourning Turned to Joy
35Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name. 36If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me for ever.37Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast away all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord.…
Cross References
Job 38:33
Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?

Psalm 89:36
His seed shall endure for ever.

Psalm 89:37
And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.

Psalm 148:6
He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath made a decree, and it shall not pass away.

Isaiah 54:9
This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to whom I swore, that I would no more bring in the waters of Noe upon the earth: so have I sworn not to be angry with thee, and not to rebuke thee.

Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

Isaiah 65:9
And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Juda a possessor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

Jeremiah 33:20
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:

Jeremiah 33:25
Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my covenant between day and night, and laws to heaven and earth:

Amos 9:8
Are not you as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord? did not I bring up Israel, out of the land of Egypt: and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene?

Amos 9:9
Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth: but yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:35
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