Jeremiah 33:1

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 33 The taking of Jerusalem, carrying away the people, their return, Jeremiah 33:1; joyful state and settled government, Jeremiah 33:9. Christ the Branch of righteousness: his everlasting kingdom and priesthood; and blessed seed, Jeremiah 33:15. See Poole on "Jeremiah 32:2". Jeremiah was forced out of the temple, God followeth him to the prison, and there revealeth his mind to him once and again. The wickedness of the Jews in persecuting the prophet could not make God's promises of no effect for mercy to be showed to the people after the captivity, which though made before, are again confirmed a second time, for this chapter for substance contains no more than promises of the like nature with those in the foregoing Chapter s.