Jeremiah 33:25
Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
KJV
Hæc dicit Dominus : Si pactum meum inter diem et noctem, et leges cælo et terræ non posui,
Vulgate
Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
ASV
כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה אִם לֹ֥א בְרִיתִ֖/י יוֹמָ֣ם וָ/לָ֑יְלָה חֻקּ֛וֹת שָׁמַ֥יִם וָ/אָ֖רֶץ לֹא שָֽׂמְתִּי
Hebrew
Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my covenant between day and night, and laws to heaven and earth:
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
י
y
noun · 280×
י
y
noun · 105×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
יוֹמָ֣ם
yvmm
noun · 50×
כֹּֽה
kh
adverb · 574×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
שָּׁמַ֔יִם
shmym
noun · 419×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§288Thus the revelation of creation is inseparable from the revelation and forging of the covenant of the one God with his People. Creation is revealed as the first step towards this covenant, the first and universal witness to God's all-powerful love.126 and so, the truth of creation is also expressed with growing vigour in the message of the prophets, the prayer of the psalms and…
§346In creation God laid a foundation and established laws that remain firm, on which the believer can rely with confidence, for they are the sign and pledge of the unshakeable faithfulness of God's covenant.214 For his part man must remain faithful to this foundation, and respect the laws which the Creator has written into it.
Cross-references
- 2Sam 23:5 — Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to gro
- Deut 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
- Gen 1:14 — And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
- Gen 8:22 — While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Gen 9:9 — And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
- Heb 6:17 — Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
- Isa 41:9 — Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
- Jer 31:35 — Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of host
- Jer 33:20 — 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;
- Jer 33:20 — 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;
- Job 38:33 — Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
- Ps 74:16 — The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
- Ps 104:19 — He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
- Ps 119:91 — They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
- Ps 148:6 — He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.